German states.

Julich-Berg.
1/4 stuber 1785, copper.

 

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Bishopric of Munster.
6 pfennig 1762, copper.

 

Kingdom of Hannover.
2 pfennig 1862.

 

County of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
20 kreuzer 1763, silver.

 

1755 Bavaria taler

 

1710 Brunswick 24 Marien grosch

 

Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel.
2/3 thaler 1764, silver.

 

Saxony.
2/3 thaler 1766, silver.

 

Saxony.
1/3 thaler 1781, silver.

 

Saxony.
5 pfennige 1869, copper.

 

Saxony.
"Mountain" thaler 1860, silver.

 

In German we call those Bergbau-Taler or Ausbeute-Taler; in English it's Mining Thaler, I think. Which means that the silver used to make these came from a "local" mine ...

Christian

 

1541 Prussia Groschen

 

1764 Saxony taler, loop at the top broken off

 

1778 Saxony taler

 

1708 Brunswick 24 Marien grosch

 

1872 Bavaria 20 marks showing "Mad King Ludwig", the builder of Neuschwanstein Castle, which became the model for Cinderella's Castle and was featured in the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

 

1634 Regensburg 2 kreuzer, issued during the Thirty Years' War, includes a plea to God for peace.

 

Wow! I visited Regensburg at August 2011!

 

... which will be on next year's "Bavaria" piece from the "German States" series of €2 coins, by the way. But since that series is about the states of today's Federal Republic of Germany, not about the countries covered in this topic, here is a "link only": http://www.hma.bayern.de/images/stories/inhalt/news/2_euro_gs_schwanstein_2012.jpg (The "XY" will be replaced by the initials of Erich Ott who designed the piece.)

Christian