Luxembourg Coinage

Here is a couple of coins I picked up today. I thought they had pretty good detail.
Let me know your thoughts.


1930 25 cent



1930 10 cent


Anyone else have Luxembourg coinage?

 

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Nice, Steve66 => I'm lovin' the lion

stevex6 (I like your name)

 

One reason why a lot of European coppers are found in good condition is that travellers would return from another country with a handful of change that it was simply not worth doing anything with, so they might be left in a drawer for the next 70 years. With Europe being relatively small compared with the USA with many countries, all with non interchangable coins, I doubt if there are many older houses or people in Britain without a small box of assorted foreign coins somewhere.

Even with the current Euro coins being spendable almost anywhere except here, we have the odd pile of Euros here and there to keep the old tradition going, because we usually forget to round them up and take them with us.

Usually if US coins are found here, in people's odds and ends, they are in well above average condition because once they found their way here, circulation stopped.

 

Here are a few more I have.





If anyone has some of these in your assorted change.
I will take them !

 

Basically I have coins from Luxembourg in my change every day but practically most pieces are German, Dutch, Belgian, etc. After all, Luxembourg is a relatively small country and thus does not issue zillions of coins every year ...

Attached is an image of a double issue that I find interesting. In 1310 John of Luxembourg married Elizabeth of Bohemia, and 700 years later the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Czech Republic issued collector coins on that occasion. The images (from a presentation folder, not my coins) show the LU piece on the left and the CZ piece on the right.

Christian

 

Here's a few to add.

 

Very beautiful coins

 

Stevex6 Your Frankenstein Monster is extremely cool. I am huge fan of classic Universal Monsters. I'm also huge fan of the great Ray Harryhausen monster and my opinion stop-motion model animation blows this new CGI BS that is out today. I wonder if there are monster coins or medals from Universal that would be cool to post.

 

These are some of my fav's



The reverse is the same on all 3

 

cool coin

 

... and depicts the very same guy as the two pieces that I posted: John of Luxembourg - or John of Bohemia, or (as on your coins) John the Blind - married Elisabeth in 1310. In 1346 (he was already blind then, due to ophthalmia), John fought and died in the battle of Crécy that your coins commemorate.

The other John is on the other side. At that time, Grand Duchess Charlotte was the head of state; Jean was the Hereditary Grand Duke then. Also note that the Luxembourgish spelling of the country name has changed; on your coins it ends in -burg while nowadays it is -buerg ...

Christian

 

Ein Letzeburg ist unser Gott, eh?

 

1 sol 1790, copper. Ruler: Leopold II.

 

2 liards 1759. Ruler: Maria-Theresia von Habsburg.

 

10 centimes 1870. Ruler: Willem III.

 

10 centimes 1901. Ruler: Adolf.

 

5 centimes 1908. Ruler: Wilhelm.

 

Almost. The second part of the country name is obvious: "burc" (various spellings) refers to a castle, see here for example. The first part is probably related to the English "little" but there is also the old word "Letze" which means something like a border marker.

Now Little Castle would be somewhat ironic, as the city of Luxembourg was secured by a giant fortress system for many years. Until the mid-late 19th century, and you can still see impressive "ruins" there ...

Christian

 

WW I. German occupation.

 

These I like a lot. Think of history with those coins.