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

Here is the last of my GB date run, a 1662 Crown. After this my contributions will be sporadic through to the 1550s and non-existent thereafter!


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1662 Saxe-Weimar taler (death of Duke Wilhelm IV)
DAV-7550

 

That's really nice. Not one that was on my radar. That will have to change.

 

1661:
Kingdom of France - 1/12 Ecu du Dauphine - 1661 - King Louis XIV.

 

Eisleben 1661 1/2 Thaler



Munster 1661 Thaler

 

1660:
Kingdom of France - Jeton - Arrival of King Louis XIV.s wife Maria Theresa of Spain in France

Papal States - Medal - 1660 - Naval arsenal of Civitavecchia - Pope Alexander VII.

Here a painting of this baroque arsenal that housed the Papal Navy and was destroyed during world war two:

 

German States - Trier 1660 1/2 Albus

 

1660, Charles II leaves the Netherlands to assume the English crown.


Eimer 210, 70mm by P.v.Abeele

 

Netherlands, United Provinces, West Friesland, ducaton, 1660.
Davenport 4939
32.53 grams


Germany, Rietberg, Johann IV, lion Daalder, 1660. Plated Imitation.
KM# 71.2; Davenport ECT# 7326A.
22.16 grams
This coin is actually an official plated issue from Germany. Other plated coins were produced in Italy.



Self Portrait, Rembrandt, 1660

 

Time for 1659?

Viceroy of Peru, Lima, Philip IV, 8 reales, 1659, Assayer V. "Star of Lima"
KM 18.1
27.6 grams

This two-year type is rare (1659) to very rare (1660) is an experimental design of Lima after over a half century of being dormant. There was another period of dormancy until 1684 when the final pillars and waves cobs started to be minted, until 1751.



Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress, Diego Velázquez, 1659

 

I don't actually own this one any more. 1659 Brunswick Double Thaler.

 

Sorry guys & gals I have been working 100 hr weeks and had little free time. Now to play catch-up...
Brandenburg-Pruessen/ Kurfürstentum
AV Dukat 1663
Königsberg Mint
Friedrich-Wilhelm I "der grosse" 1640-88

 

German States - Bremen 1658 1/3 Thaler

 

Oliver Cromwell, crown, 1658/7.
S-2945A
30.1 grams


Viceroy of Peru, Potosi, Philip IV, 8 reales, 1658 E.
KM 21
27.35 grams


Viceroy of Peru, Potosi, Philip IV, 4 reales, 1658 E.
KM 18
12.8 grams



Portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper, 1656

 

The only coin I have for 1658 is this GB Cromwell shilling, a cast copy!

 

This coin should be within range of the date. Commonwealth half groat , two pence.

 

Commonwealth Shilling 1653 VF (Clipped), Tower mint, Sun mm, KM390.1, ESC-125 (R). All Ns over inverted Ns variety. 5.90gm.

 

Here's a coin for 1657:

New Spain, Mexico, 8 reales, Philip IV, 1657/6, assayer P. Salvaged.
KM unlisted
24.7 grams



Saint Bartholomew by Rembrandt, 1657