[Game] World Coins Time Machine… Counting Backward by Year! (Plus Prize Coin)

Kingdom of Prussia - 6 Gröscher - 1709 - King Friedrich I.

 

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I swear to God/ looks like someone took a bite out of your coin
Johann

 

I have never tried it but silver would have been one of the most antibacterial snacks you could have at the time

 

I know sometimes to check the coin/ people would do test cuts/ even bite into gold coins
I once showed some a Mouton d'or from John II of France/ it was struck in 1350 height of "Black Death" plague. He asked me if was afraid of catching plague from coin I said/ heck no/ I never touch my coins/ always keep them in SAFLIPS. (which is true)
But how anyone can believe that the germs would survive for 800 years......

 

A change from me (not GB!) - a French 1709 token:

 

"change is good"

 

Now that would be an interesting question for an epidemiologist.

Knowing you, I'd guess that your moulton d'or is mint state (as is mine). Hence it probably didn't circulate among plague carriers.

Still it might be possible that bacterial spores could be preserved on one.

 

I don't about MS/ but its definately EF+ I am OK anyway/ I NEVER touch my coins/ only glance at them lovely thru SAFLIP

 

Time for 1708
I get to post coin from my hometown!
Its dually dated/ a rarity I guess.
Jülich-Cleve-Berg/ Herzogtum
AV Quarter Dukat 1708 or 1711
Johann Wilhelm II 1679-1716

 

1708 dated British James III medal



Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1708 24 Mariengroschen

 

All I can offer is my usual GB stuff. I have at least one example of all the different denominations for 1708, but I think this is the most attractive - a halfcrown:

 

Holy Roman Empire - 3 Kreuzer - 1708 - Emperor Joseph I.

 

1707, 43mm medal by P.H.Muller.



George I of Great Britain - Wikipedia

 

I do not coll. medals/ but that is gorgeous/ yarm.

 

In all the excitment/ I forgot this 1709
Papal States
AV 1/2 Scudo d'oro ANNO IX (1709)
Roma Mint
Pope Clemente IX 1700-21
ex: Eric Newman Coll.

 

Brunswick 1707 Thaler


1707 Great Britain 6 pence

 

1707, Pope Clemente XI raises the column and base of a monument to Emperor Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161) from ruins in Rome.

 

Wasn't that the attempt that failed as they didn't use proper engineering methods? The entire column was destroyed in the attempt I recall.

 

Ah, but the base was restored!

 

Papal States
AV Mezzo Scudo d'oro ND (1706)
Roma Mint
Pope Clemente XI 1700-21