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

A common coin, but nice, ex:Terner collection
Austria/ Klagenfurth
AV Dukat 1584
Klagenfurth Mint
Archduke Karl

 

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France 1584 Franc

 

Rosenberg
AV Dukat 1585
Reichstein Mint
Baron Wilhelm I von Rosenberg

 

1583:

 

Salzburg/ Erzbistum
AV Doppelter Dukat 1582
Salzburg Mint

 

Scotland James VI 30 Shillings 1582 VF30 NGC, S-5487. Fourth Coinage.

Obverse: Left facing half-length depiction of James VI in armour.
Lettering: IACOBVS · 6 · DEI · GRATIA · REX · SCOTORVM ·
Translation: James VI, by the Grace of God, King of Scots

Reverse: Crowned arms of Scotland, flanked by 'IR' and mark of value. One 'X' of the mark of value is above the others.
Lettering: HONOR · REGIS · IVDICIVM · DILIGT · 1582 ·
Translation: The King's power loveth judgement

Value: 30 Shillings (1.5)
Composition: Silver (.916)
Weight: 22.29 g
Diameter: 41 mm

 

1583 must have been a slow year for coins. I didn't have any. Looks like @wittwolf is the only one that does.

 

Yep! I find it difficult after 1700. But every year I try to add dates, its very $$$$$$$ but fun.

 

Here is one from 1595 I forgot to post
Syria
AV Sultani AH 1003 (1595)
Dimashq Mint
Mehmet III 1595-1603

 

1581

Khmer Kingdom
AV Quarter Tical ND (1581)
Unknown Ruler

 

I'm out till we get to 1579.

 

Glad to have been able to make to thread move forward. I miss many years from 1700 onward, and especially dated coins become very rare in my collection in the 16th century.

 

@wittwolf Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands should provide affordable coins with dates back to 1500A.D.
Before that date they become pricey.

 

For me, I think they are pricey from 1815 down.....

 

Here's an undated Potosi 8 reales cob issued between 1581and 1586, based on Paoletti's reference:

Viceroyalty of Peru, Philip II, Potosi, 8 reales, circa 1581-86, assayer B.
Paoletti 78 (2nd edition)
37mm; 27.3 grams.
Note: The assayer, at first glance appears to be R, but on closer inspection is actually B, with the lower line mostly missing.

 

This coin although noted dated was likely struck after AH 982 -992 (1574-84)

 

So, if we use the last one from @panzerman for 1580 I will move us on to 1579.

A particularly dark Jeton from the Spanish Netherlands



"Egmond & Horne" bronze Jeton 1579 MS61 Brown NGC, Van Loon-I-275.2. 29mm.

Commemorative issue: Dordrecht promotional jeton to continue the Dutch Revolt

Obverse: Soldiers, battling each other
Script: Latin
Lettering: PA T RIA P RAESTAT PUGNARE PRO
Unabridged legend: PRÆSTAT PVGNARE PRO PATRIA 1579
Translation: It is better to fight for the fatherland

Reverse: The two headless bodies of Counts Egmont and Horn with their heads impaled on two posts beside them.
Script: Latin
Lettering: DECIPI 1579 QVAM SIMVLATA PACE
Unabridged legend: QVAM SIMVLATA PACE DECIPI
Translation: than to be deceived by a feigned peace

Edge: Rough

Composition: Bronze
Weight: 6.63 g
Diameter: 30 mm
Mint: Dordrecht, Netherlands (1190-1806)

Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522-1568), and Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn (c. 1518/1526 -1568), were two of the most important noblemen of the Netherlands in the third quarter of the sixteenth century: both were supporters of the Spanish crown. Both protested the imposition of the Inquisition by Cardinal Granvelle, but still remained loyal to Philip II. This opposition enraged the king and he sent in the Duke of Alba to pacify the country. Despite protests from all over Europe, Alba arrested Egmont and Horn, convicted them in a kangaroo court, and had them both executed the next day, 5 June 1568. That action, and Alba's other cruelties, made the Dutch Revolt inevitable; they have been lauded as heros in both Belgian and the Netherlands ever since. This jeton was struck as a reminder to those engaged in peace negotiations in 1579, of what happened to earlier leaders who had wished for peace.

 

I have plenty of blank years coming up. Here's a coin for 1579:

Netherlands, United Provinces, Maastricht, AE 40 stuivers, 1579. Issued by the governor of Maastricht during the siege by Duke of Parma.
15 grams

The siege of Maastricht was a battle of the Eighty Years' War which lasted from March 12 to July 1, 1579. The Spanish were victorious.



The Siege of Maastricht (1579) by an anonymous painter. Late 16th c.(?). Collection: Royal Palace of Aranjuez, Spain.


Portrait of Alexander Farnese by Otto van Veen, ca. 1585.