pre 1501 AD coins with dates

For the Liege coin, a book I have also mention unknown mint.
Very similar coins were issued by the Hasselt mint but nothing permits to tell if your coin has been minted in Hasselt or not.

The Toledo obol you posted is very interessant.

 

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A half stuiver from Nijmegen.

 

And don't forget about islamic coins.

 

I don't have any Islamic coins because it is too hard for ME to
read the dates. Most have Arabic writing and very little in the
way of any other design elements. Most of the European coins
have a design element, a person or coat of arms. I had to set
some limits for my collection. The focus of my collection is
European coins with dates before 1501 AD. I hope you enjoy
my posts as I get to them.

 

From the mint Wesel. Pretty scary swan.

 

Another swan. This one from the Cleve mint.

 

A Stuiver. This piece from the Cervin collection.

 

A double Briquet from the Dordrecht mint.

 

Notice the medieval "5". Looks like a "7". This from the Vienna mint.

 

From the Mulheim mint. Seems to be well struck. Have you noticed that they use
" IIII " instead of " IV " for the number "4"? Also " VIIII " instead of " IX ". I
wonder when they started the shorter versions for those two numbers?

 

Notice the "4", laying down. Minted in Graz. from the Cervin collection.

 

On the I-198, I like the way the date takes entire center of coin.

 

My comment on that particular coin was about the way they used
Roman numerals. I found some coins in my collection that used the
more modern way we use them today.

 

Probably some artistic license. The actual change date will be impossible to nail down, maybe space prompted. In your collection is probably the 1st example of abbreviation. Do you have any duplicates for sale? What great conversation pieces!

 

At this time I don't have any duplicates for sale. After Todd
works his magic I will look again. The few times I've shown
my coins by picture to non-collectors they politely look and
ask only two questions, how old are they, how much is it worth?

 

The date, in Roman numerals, is on the inner circle.
From the Mulheim mint.

 

From the Antwerp mint.

 

Austrian coin from the Vienna mint. I've bid on two
nicer pieces but lost out both times.

 

I am guilty of asking those questions. I wish I had thought about collecting coins like yours 50+ years ago and we might be bidding on the same coins. Actually I did fantasize about having a collection of a.d. 1 to date but never did much toward finding the ones that weren't listed in a book. Now, all kinds of books on any subject exist and I'm too old to get into much new. My wife still lets me buy a neat coin once in a while. She would lower the boom on me starting a new collection. She wants me to be in dispose mode for a few years, which I need to be. It is difficult.

 

Man alive!!!!! Great thread/ stupendous coins, Tibor seems you can open a museum
I was born in Julich/ some of your coins come from there.
Here are some of my pre 1500 coins. Here are some Islamic examples (my col.)
Fatimid Caliphs/ Egypt
AV Dinar AH507 (1108AD) Misr Mint
Al-Amir
Abbasid Caliphs/ Egypt
AV Dinar AH162 (763AD) Misr Mint
Al- Mahdi
Abbasid Caliphs/Syria
AV Dinar AH308 (920AD)
Damasqh Mint
Abbasid Caliphs/Yemen
AV Dinar AH320 (932AD)
Al-Qadir
Seljuks of Rum
AV Dinar AH642 (1243AD) Konya Mint
Ghiyath al-din Kaykhusraw