City States coinage/ list yours

a pretty coin design! Outstanding quality. I would bet not many around today.

 

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Switzerland - Zurich City 1666 1/4 Ducat

 

Phoenicia Tyre Shekel 44-43 BC (30 pieces of silver fame??)

 

Isle of Lesbos 412-378 BC, Myteline El Hecte

 

Venice 1457-62 Ducat

 

Wreath Crown/ awesome coins, you and I collect same stuff
Here is another from my coll.
Basel
AV Dukat 1653
Struck from bad reverse dies/ weakness in center

 

France BESANCON 1/2 Taler 1667

Besancon was officially a part of the Empire until the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. The coinage right was granted to the city in 1526 by Charles V and in commemoration larger Besancon coins always show his standing figure. In 1678 the city was formally ceded to France by the Peace of Nijmegen.

 

1809 Tryol 20 Kreuzer, struck during the Tyrolean insurrection. I've got the 1 Kreuzer but it's not nearly as nice.

 

This is a nice and interesting coin but I don't think Tyrol counts as a city. It might be better posted on the Coins and History thread.

 

Good point. The post was city states, not cities and states...

 

City of Besançon silver Carolus 1542
Silver, 19 mm, 1.44 gm
Obverse: Crowned bust of Charles V facing left / CAROLVS V IMPERATOR
Reverse: Arms of the city / MONE CIVI BISVNTINE 1542
Catalog: Roberts 7005 (James N. Roberts, The Silver Coins of Medieval France, 1996)

Charles V, as King of Spain, was reported given a golden falcon by the Knights of St. John in return for the island of Malta.

Mexico has honored him by naming a candy bar after him, the "Carlos Quinto".

Besançon is a city currently part of France. It has been passed around between German states, Spain, and France. It was part of the Holy Roman Empire since 1034 and was designated the Free Imperial City of Besançon in 1184. The city struck coins between 1526 and 1673.

I just had to have a coin with Charles V on it after reading Dashiell Hammett's book The Maltese Falcon and now I do.

 

Here's one more appropriate for this thread. It also happens to be my avatar at the moment.

Münster 1608 3 Schilling with EVB countermark (Engelbert von Brabeck, the Canon of Münster and Speyer).

@dirty_brian do you collect German States Coinage by chance? I love to connect with those that do. It's my current focus.

 

Frankfurt/ Freistadt
AV Dukat 1796
Struck while City was occupied by French

 

Basel
AV 1/4 Dukat ND (1721)

 

And at the opposite extreme

ZURICH Uniface Billon Angster n.d. (16th cent.) 13.5 mm 0.247 g. Easily lost

 

Salamis/ City State in Cyprus
AV Stater ND struck at Salamis Mint
King Nikokreon 330-12BC

This guy was King of Salamis, after the death of Alexander III of Macedonia, infighting developed between his generals. Ptolemy had been given control of Egypt/ and sought Nikokreon as an ally. Later, he helped him gain control over the whole Island.

 

And here's another basilisk

Switzerland Canton BASEL Half Taler 1765

 

Germany BREISACH 1/2 Reichsguldiner 1542

 

Mysia/ Kyzikos
EL Hemihekte (1/12 Stater) ND circa 475-450BC
Kyzikos Mint
obv: Head of Attis
rev: Quadripartite Incuse Square