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

They made the "2" more like "Z" back in 1500s

 

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Anyone have anything for 1571? I can get back in on the next year.

 

1571:

 

Thanks @wittwolf I thought I was going to have to buy something to keep us moving.

 

I have been doing a lot of that

 

Thank God for Islamic dated coins!
Mughal Empire
AV Mohur AH 974 = 1569/70
Agra Mint
Jalal al-Din Akbar 1556-1605

 

For 1570 I have a Austrian Guldenthaler of Maximillian II



Habsburgian Austria
Bohemia

Maximilian II., 1564-1576.
Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer)
Joachimstal.

Weight: 24,48g

Dav. 43; Dietiker 208; Halacka 210; Voglh. 73 var.

 

Here are a few more.

Scotland, James VI, sword ryal of 30 shillings, 1571.
Davenport 8467
30.4 grams


Naples, Philip II, scudo, no date (1564-1571).
Davenport 8317
29.7 grams


Viceroyalty of Peru, Philip II, Lima, 4 reales, No Date (1568-1570), Assayer R (Alonso de Rincon). Salvaged. Rare.
S-L1; KM-10.1; CT-313.
12.67 grams

 

Scotland 1568 Ryal / Sword Dollar

 

Spanish Netherlands, Margaretha of Brederode, Thorn Nunnery, rijksdaalder, 1569.
Davenport 8672
28.90 grams

 

One I forgot...

Papal States/ Bologna
AV Scudo d'oro ND (1573)
Bologna Mint
Pope Gregorius XIII 1572-85

Pope Gregory XIII and French King Charles IX, along with Catharine di Medici plotted the Saint Barths Day Massacre of Protestants.

 

Just sneaking in on the 1570's.


ELIZABETH 1 1578
THREE PENCE. LONDON.
QUEEN FACING LEFT ROSE BEHIND BUST
S.2573

 

That coin would also be good for thread, coins with women rulers on low scale of 1-10 in beauty Her personality also sucked, plundered Spanish ships, tortured and murdered Roman Catholics, commited genocide vs Irish......

 

This is what Elizabeth would have said to you @panzerman

"Ye speak of a 'personality' as if I were a common milkmaid and not a Prince set upon a throne by God's own hand.

As for the Spanish gold? It was merely a tithe collected from those who sought to breach my realm—consider it a maritime tax for their insolence. I have no desire to make windows into men's souls, but those who would plant a dagger in my back under the guise of Rome shall find my justice swifter than their prayers.

I am but a weak and feeble woman, it is true, but I have the heart and stomach of a King—and a King does not offer apologies for securing her kingdom."

To be fair, 'plundering Spanish ships' was basically the 16th-century version of a high-growth investment strategy.
She did dodge 30 assassination attempts and of course the Spanish Armada was a religious crusade and Philip II was a devout Catholic who wanted to restore Catholicism in England. The Pope also put a price on her head which didn't help.
For a 16th Century ruler she was about par for the course. Go back a couple of hundred years and we were cutting off the hands and castrating moneyers who made bad coins. She debased the coinage and then replaced it with good coins without going through the castration route. The great recoinage reduced the value of coins by 25% to be replaced with the new coins and effectively she charged the public for the recoinage with the 25% deduction in value.

I'm not a monarchist so tend to always take the low view of them. I'm not too fussed on politicians either but we won't go there.

 

That was well said and thought out. Politicians, many a time, don't think, before they put their foot in their mouth with silly remarks, or just blatantly lie like that fool in the Kremlin alongside his foreign minister.
But back to Queen Bess, she probably was "bloodier" then her sister Maria, and was really mean to the other Maria from Scotland. Her, "headsman" botched up her execution.
Apart from that, her coinage, Angels, Sovereigns, Ryals are quite nice and very $$$$$$$.
Felipe II squandered a lot of gold coins of empire expansion, never as good at it as Karl V was.

 

1567
France
Ecu au soliel d'or 1567
Saint-Lô Mint
Charles IX

Charles IX along with his Holiness Pope Gregory XIII, egged on by Catharine di Medici plotted the demise of French Hugenots on St. Barts Day.

 

Ottoman Empire/ Egypt
AV Sultani AH 974 1566)
Selim II 1566-74

 

I'll move us on to 1565. My postings are sporadic at best from now on. My next will be for 1562. Anyway, this Scottish Ryal is dated 1565 but the countermark revalues it in 1578.



SCOTLAND. Mary. 1542-1567 Ryal. Fourth period, Mary and Henry Darnley. Second issue. Edinburgh mint. Dated 1565. Countermarked for revaluation of 1578. Crowned coat-of-arms of Scotland

Rampling dies A9/54; Burns 1 (fig. 904); SCBI 58 (Edinburgh), 1169/1170 (same obv./rev. dies); SCBC 5425. For c/m: SCBC p. 76.

Attractively toned, small “H” countermark on obverse.

Obverse: thistles flanking; c/m: small H
Reverse: Crowned palm tree, upon which tortoise climbs; scroll across field; c/m: crowned thistle.

Countermarked in the Revaluation of 1578. The mark signifies that the coin's value was raised from 30 shillings to 36 shillings 9 pence.

Composition: Silver
Diameter: 42mm
Weight: 30.31g

 

Sporadic is better then nothing. I am in same boat. Its gets harder and harder.