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Maria Theresa, nice. Next door to Switzerland, 5 francs, 1986

 

Holy Roman Empire/ Toscana/ GranDuchy
AV Ruspone 1781
Firenze Mint
Pietro Leopoldo

The GranDuke would later be elected Leopold II 1790-92 Holy Roman Emperor/ off to cut lawns...

 

Danmark 5 Kroner
Frederick lX and Princess Anne Marrie Brylup
1964

 

Germany, 1937 F 2 marks

 

I always wondered why the National Socialist Govt. did not strike gold coinage. One would think a bombastic man like Hitler would have loved his portrait on a 1000 Reich Mark AV coin.

 

France
AV Écu d'or au soleil 1590
Paris Mint
Charles X Cardinal de Bourbon 1589-90

NOTE: All gold coins of Charles X are crappy strikes/ surprised he did not have his mint master/ director sent to the "axe man"
Also/ in 1589 King Henri III died childless/ meanwhile his Sister Marguerite de Valois was forced to marry the Huguenot (Protestant) Henry of Navarre in 1567. That same year Pope Gregorius XIII and French Catholics decided to wipe out the Huguenots on St Batholomews Day Massacre". They killed a lot of them/ some escaped (famed German ace Adolf Galland) was descended from French Protestants that escaped to Germany. Back to Cardinal de Bourbon/ he was imprisoned by Henri III/ after the King died/ the Catholic League made him King/ instead of Henry of Navarre (Henri IV)

 

Wow, some mixed up politics back then. Almost as bad as now a daze...that is a rather sorry looking coin, tho the value is in the gold, no doubt. I should post a coin, next door Belgium. 1905 2 centimes

 

Nice coin!

 

Thanks Sal. I love this pattern of coin, with the big lion and the stone tablets. Not sure what it all symbolizes, and that is OK. These are in slightly better condition.

 

Burgundy/ Flanders/ Comtes
Louis de Màle 1346-84
Ghent Mint
AV Chaise d'or ND

 

I suspect that because the Germans owed the French, the US, Britain, well . . . everyone in fact, that they did not want to use gold for coins, but to meet payments. And Hitler needed gold to buy stuff for the war effort. I may have read that somewhere, but let's just call it a guess. I've always wondered why he got himself on postage stamps but not coins.

 

Luxembourg - 1 Sol siege coinage, 1795I

 

Burgundy/ Geldr/ Herzogtum
AV St. Jans Clemmergulden ND (1499-1511)
Njimegen Mint
Karel van Egmont 1492-1538

 

Denmark

 

Georgius llll
Brittain 1821. Dot after date R6
Farthing

 

Netherlands 10 cents 1944-P

 

Germany

 

Back to the UK through the North Sea.

 

Espana, 1904
50C