Yeah, but if you like the theme, they can all be replicated in silver or copper I believe. Maybe not same designs, but still. Last rulers of a dynasty are just about as popular as first ones.
Right, these rulers had Copper/ Silver/ Gold coinage of the realm. I am just posting AV coins...since I have no AR/ AE coins in my collection.
(Same thread, proletarian non-gold edition) Italy LAST DUKE OF URBINO Armellino n.d. After his son's premature death in 1623, Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, ceded his properties to Pope Urban VIII and retired to Casteldurante, where he died in 1631.
Awesome gold coins! Thank you so much for sharing I only have a poor man's Kopeck: 21.5 mm, 3.25 g; St. Petersburg, 1910; struck under Nicholas II; mintmark С.П.Б., mintage 36,500,009 Ref. Y 9.2 Ob.: Crowned double-headed imperial eagle within circle. Nine shields (Annexed Duchy's Coat of Arms into Russia) upon crowned double-headed imperial eagle. The center shield is of the Russian Empire. МѢДНАЯ РОССІЙСКАЯ МОНЕТА ОДНА КОПѢЙКА Translation: Copper Russian coin, One Kopeck Rev.: Value flanked by stars within beaded circle. 1910 ГОДА * 1 * КОПѢЙКА С.П.Б. Translation: 1910 year, 1 Kopeck, S.P.B.
Last Holy Roman Emperor / Franz II gave up that title due to Napoleon crushing the Austrian armies all over Europe. From 1806 on the former HRE would be known as Kaiser Franz I. Holy Roman part no more, since the French occupied all of Italy now. AV Souverain d'or 1831-A Wien Mint/ Lombardy-Venetia. They got back their Italian Territory after Treaty of Vienna 1815, and Napoleon was sent to St. Helena, to keep him from making trouble.
The last Spanish ruler of almost all of the New World colonies was Fernando VII. This example is an 8 reales from the Potosi mint in Alto Peru that would shortly thereafter gain independence as the nation of Bolivia.
1 Dukat, same Franz I Emperor of Austria, mint mark E, Gyulafehérvár (Karslburg / Alba Iulia) 1830 3.47 g, 21 mm Ref.: KM 2171, Friedberg 219; J. 199; Schl. 208; H 1934, Unger II 1356b Ob: Laureate head right; FRANCISCUS I D·G·AVSTRIAE IMPERATOR, mint mark E Rev.: Crowned imperial eagle with coat of arms on breast; HVN·BOH·LOMB·ET VEN·GAL·LOD·IL·REX·A·A· (ever venerable, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Lombardy and Venetia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria) 1830