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1876 Melbourne sovereign with G&D reverse


1876H halfpenny, Freeman 329A with dies 14+M. This is Freeman's coin which he classed a proof, though some don't consider it to be one. IMO the standard is not quite as good as say the 1879 higher up this page, though the fields and engraving are unquestionably better than an obvious currency piece.


And for comparison, the currency

 

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Kingdom of Portugal - 100 Reis - 1876 - King Luis I.

 

Nifty 1876 dated coins, y'all! Thanks.

Here's my 1876-B Prussia five-marks.



And then an 1876-D Bavaria five-marks.

And then a Wurttemberg 1876-F two-marks.

 

I missed out on a whole whack of 77s all from Germany
Sachsen/ Hamburg/ Pruessen/ Bayern all AV 5 Marks. The Pruessen 1877-C Cleve Mint is very rare.

 

1875:
Kingdom of Bavaria - 5 Mark - 1875 - King Ludwig II.

 

Only a couple of 1875s for me and more of the same

1875 halfpenny with Freeman dies 11+J (F321). Previously in a 64 slab from the Cheshire Collection. Apologies for the scan.


1875H halfpenny with Freeman dies 13+K* (F323). ex. C W Peck

 

Leopold II of Belgium
He was the architect of the "Congo Free (Slave) State"
Under his direction/ over 9 M died from torture/ forced labour camps/ cruelty from his enforcers.

 

Territorial US gold
AV One Dollar 1876/5

This was the last Territorial US private production gold coin/ the feds shut this operation down in 1876

 

Thanks for the historical note. I went back to Wikipedia refreshed my memory of the subject.

 

Kingdom of Danmark - 1 Krone - 1875 - King Christian IX.

 

A few more 1875s . . .

France, third republic, five francs.


Ten gulden, the Netherlands, William the Third.

Hamburg, five marks.

 

a different 5F without a hinge

 

1874:
Empire of Japan - 1 Sen - 1874 - Emperor Meji

 

In 1873 the last french emperor Napoleon III. died in exile. His son Napoleon Eugene was proclaimed as Napoleon IV. in March of 1874 by the remaining Bonapartists who issued this medal to celebrate the event:

I have not yet seen an example where the reverse was engraved with anything so I wonder if anyone knows what this empty space was for?
Young Napoleon IV. would die fighting for the british 5 years later in South Africa which damaged the Bonapartist cause alot and maybe prevented a revival of the Empire.

 

Autro-Hungarian Empire
AV 4 Dukaten 1873-A
Wien Mint
Kaiser Franz Josef I 1848-1916
Shooting Festival

 

Hesse-Darmstadt/ Gros Herzogtum
AV 20 Mark 1873-H
Darmstadt Mint
Ludwig III

 

Mecklenburg-Schwerin/ Grosherzogtum
Friedrich Franz II
AV 10 Mark 1873-A
Berlin Mint