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

Transylvania
AV Dukat 1558
Hermannstadt Mint
Janos Sigismund

 

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Vijayanagar Kingdom
AV Half Pagoda (1557)
Sasadiva 1 1543-65

 

@panzerman That coin is a beauty WOW

 

Thank you! I like Vijayanagar coins, they have interesting designs. By 1400AD, most of India was under Muslim (Dehli Sultanate) control.

 

1556

Duci di Parma & Piacenza
AV Scudo d'oro 1556
Octtavio Farnese 1547-84
Parma Mint
THese are poor quality strikes, inept mint staff

 

Here are a couple of coins, undated, that generally cover the second half of the 16th century.

Italy, Naples, Philip II of Spain, half ducaton, 1556-1598.
MIR.8174
14.57 grams


New Spain, Mexico, Philip II, 8 reales, No Date, oM over O (1556-98). Purchased from Ponterio and Associates in February 1991.
KM-43
27.2 grams

 

1555
Not the best quality, one to be upgraded.

 

Italy, Philip II, Mezzo Ducato, Naples, 1554-56, IBR monogram.
Pannuti Riccio 3
14.7 grams

 

1554:

 

Livonia 1553 Shilling

 

1552
England
AV Half Sovereign ND (struck period 1551 to 1553
Tower Mint
Edward VI 1547-53

 

And here's a crown to go with the half sovereign:

England, Edward VI, crown, 1551. Purchased from Davisson's in 2002.
Davenport 8245

 

Yay, I'm back in.

Until recently this was my earliest dated Wildman coin. This one is a 1551 1/4 Thaler.

 

Great coins!

 

Anyone have anything for 1550?

 

Many thanks to Lord M

 

Fantastic @green18 thankful for the contribution.

 

I'm going to move us on to 1549, because I have one. Another Brunswick Wildman thaler. My earliest Wildman.

 

Nice, keep them coming! My next dated coin is at 1542

 

I'm running on fumes as well, very spotty coverage.

How are we going to handle the date issue after 1500? Some coins are dated, especially Islamic coins, and going even farther back some coins, such as Byzantine coins, are dated by regnal year which often overlaps Gregorian years. Some BCE coins are dated, but using calendars, such as Seleucid era year based on Seleucus I Nicator's reconquest of Babylon in 312/11 BCE - quite complicated. Roman coins sometimes include consul year, which could be used to arrive at an approximate date. Roman provincial coins from Egypt usually have a year, in Greek letters, on them and that could be used to calculate an approximate date.

Just some random thoughts....

German Cities/States, Lubeck, thaler, 1549.
Davenport 9405