Im hoping someone can tell me what this is. The coin belongs to my neighbor who asked me if I could identify it (at this point I can just barely identify current US coins) anyway: The coin is about 40 mm in dia. and has the words CIVITAT-LUBCAE and MON-NOVA-IM... and the number 32 in the center. The other side reads GELDT 1738 the rest is pretty worn. The link below is for photos. Clicking on the individual photos will enlarge them. http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jvh99/album?.dir=/e95f
hmmm one of the side (2) the shield looks familar like the one on a indian head here is a picture it could be linked
German States KM#154, a 32 schilling (=2/3 thaler or 1 gulden) silver coin of the Free City of Lubeck, now part of Germany. There should be another "32" above the "Schilling" on the reverse, which can't be seen in the picture, and may be totally worn off. I would grade the picture as only G, but if the 32 can be discerned on the actual coin, I would go VG, which is listed as $20, the lowest grade valued in the 18th Century Krause, 3rd Ed. The design was minted in 1731-32 as well as 1738, but Krause gives no mintage figures. The weight and fineness are also unspecified, but it is probably in the 25-27g range. The legend translates as "New Money of the Imperial City of Lubeck". Originally the initials "JJJ" for mintmaster Johann Justus Jaster appeared somewhere on the coin. Lubeck was a free city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (hence the two-headed eagle device). It had an Imperial mint as early as 1188, but only began issuing civic coinage about 1350.
wow... I was totally off base. I was going to hazard a guess as a 32 kreuzer from austria, but I don't have a krause catalogue from 1701-1800.
