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

Retegno
AV Quadrupla 1686
Retegno Mint
Antonio Gaetano Gallio Trivulzo 1679-1705

 

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Token from Liege

 

1686 James II guinea.

 

Viceroy of Peru, Lima, Charles II, 8 reales 1686 R.
KM 24
27.0 grams


Viceroy of Peru, Potosi, Charles II, 8 reales, 1686 VR.
KM 26
27.4 grams


Spain, 8 escudos, Charles II, (1686), Madrid, Assayer M.
FR 216; Cal-type 2A; KM 168.1
26.94 grams
While this coin lacks a date (off the flan), based on other dated examples, it was minted in 1686, the only year for assayer M at Madrid.


Here's a bit of history.
September 2, 1686: The Holy League Alliance of the Holy Roman Empire, Russia and Austria liberates the Hungarian city of Buda (now part of Budapest) from the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Buda.


By Gyula Benczúr (1844-1920)

 

1685:
Duchy of Prussia - 18 Gröscher - 1685 - Duke Friedrich Wilhelm "The Great Elector"

 

Just slipped this in...
SHILLING 1686 JAMES II V OVER S IN JACOBVS

 

Quite a decent GB 1685 Threepence:

 

Guess its "84" time! I have no none

 

I can't play until 1679.

 

Me its 1683/ 82

 

OK, well I can keep it going.
GB as usual, fourpence and farthing. The latter is much scarcer and is another Tin coin with the date on the edge:

 

For some reason 1684 is a good year for me.

Sweden 1684 Carl XI Ore


Naples Ducato

Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 2 Mariengroschen


and a Mariengroschen - I've always been attracted to the simplicity of this coin when compared to other coinage of the era.

 

Here are two coins for 1685 and 1684:

Viceroy of Peru, Potosi, 8 reales, Charles II, 1685 VR. From the HMS Association (sank in 1707 off Cornwall).
KM 26
26.8 grams

The 5's on this coin are the Spanish style 5, sickle shaped and often mistaken for a 9. Some lion daalders have the same style of 5.



Italian States, Tuscany, Livorno, Cosmos III, Pezza della Rosa tallero, 1684 WW.
KM  15.2
25.76 grams


I thought I'd throw in some period music, from 1692, a top ten hit!
The Fairy Queen is a semi-opera based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

 

I think its 1683 time

Holy Roman Empire/ Silesia
AV Quarter Dukat 1683 SHS
Breslau Mint
Leopold I 1657-1705

 

Poland 1683 6 Groschen


Spanish Netherlands 1683 Holland countermarked 28 Stuivers

 

This is my best 1683 GB coin - a fourpence:

 

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - 6 Groszy - 1683 - King Jan III. Sobieski

 

nice stache

 

The glorious stache of the man that saved vienna from the ottoman onslaught

 

The Ottoman Sultan Mehmet IV was an idiot. The Turkish Commander warned him, not to go ahead with assault on Vienna. Mustafa Pasha advised the Sultan to let the Christians kill one another in their endless Wars.