World coins by Decade

That 2 farthing over a half penny - was that a common thing to do? Or just happened that way? It's super neat.

 

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1690 - 1700

 

Hohenlohe-Neuenstein/ Grafschaft
AV Dukat 1697
Nürnberg Mint
Julius Wolfgang Graf von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein 1641-98

 

Holy Roman Empire/ Silesia
AV 1/12 Dukat 1690 SHS
Breslau Mint
HRE Leopold I 1665-1705

 

Bayern/ Kurfürstentum
AV Goldgulden 1677
München Mint
Ferdinand Maria I 1651-79

 

France/ Bourbon Kings
AV Louis d'or 1691-L
Bayonne Mint
Louis XIV 1643-1715 Heritage and TPGrader had the coins mint wrong/ they listed it as Limoges/ but L = Bayonne Mint

 

I think it was done to try out the new dies, or at least I'm struggling to come up with an alternative reason. There are other recorded examples for various types, e.g. Peck notes a 1717 1/2d struck over a Charles I shilling, a William III shilling and a gunmoney shilling.

 

1697y shilling with transposed French and Irish shields


1696 Chester shilling with C over E below the bust and no reverse stops. The former not recorded, the latter only recorded for 1697 at Chester.


1696 Tower mint shilling with 9 over 6 in the date.


1694 halfpenny with GV over B in the obverse legend. The engraver presumably thought he was engraving a reverse die before making the correction.

 

City of Wiedenbrück, 1692, 3 Pfennig, wheel countermark.
This is one of my favorite coins and it was only like $5 unidentified.
I like the enigmatic wheel counter mark.


England, William and Mary Farthing, 1694


Korea, 2 Mun, 1695-1742. I think these were uniface.
These are two different coins of the same type.


Hungary, 1698, 1/4 Thaler (Ex-mounted)


England, William III, 1698, Groat

England, William III, Halfpenny, 1699

 

1695 Austria, Leopold I (Hogmouth)



1698 GERMAN STATES-BAVARIA (BAYERN), MAXIMILIAN II EMANUEL

 

Holy Roman Empire/ Hungary
AV Quarter Dukat 1698 K-B
Kremnitz Mint
Leopold I

 

Papal States
AV Scudo d'oro 1697
Roma Mint
Pope Innocenza XII 1691-1700

 

British India Company
AV 1/2 Pagoda ND (1654-91)
Fort St. George Mint
Vishnu/ Granulated reverse

according to Zeno there are 2 exs known/ so far unpublished.

 

Another one I forgot...
Vijayanagar Empire
AV 1/2 Pagoda ND/ NM
Venkata Patiraya III 1630-41
The Vijayanagar Empire South India was the only Hindu sovereign state left in India/ 95 percent was under Mughal Empire (Islamic)
Also this coin is from famed Dr. Larry Adams Coll./ it was in CNG Auction graded as CH-EF
Heritage had it slabbed and lo and behold by some miracle it turned into a GEM MS-65!!!!!!!

 

Do you know the purpose of the countermark? Something related to Osnabruck?