Germany coin thread (only the best)

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  1. expat

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    Here is a Saxony-Albertine full Thaler 1793 FWoF (km#962).
    28.8000g silver from the reign of Friedrich Christian, minted at Leipzig
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  3. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Brandenburg-Franconia/ Margraviate
    AV Goldgulden 1499 Schwacbach Mint
    Friedrich IV 1495-1515
    Rottweiler Head/ mm 25c3547970c93df3a12a270a7edd46cd.jpg
     
  4. cmezner

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    Friedrich II, Kingdom of Prussia

    These Thalers were struck under Frederick II 'The Great', king of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. The Thaler contains 0.537 troy ounces of silver. Several different mint marks were used, spanning from the letters A through to F. This type, issued in Breslau and Berlin 1750-52, is the second Thaler issued by Frederick the Great after the very rare type of 1741 (Davenport 2581).

    AR, Reichstaler, Breslau (Today Wroclaw, Poland), 1751
    38 mm, 21.87 g
    Ref.: Olding 28 b; v. Schrötter 182 b, Davenport 2583; KM 256

    Ob.: FRIDERICVS BORVSSORUM REX, Laureate portrait right
    Rev.: EIN REICHSTALER 17 (B) 51 Crowned eagle flying (open wings), looking to the left above; right two and left three banner points
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    and one with a much older portrait:

    Berlin, 1777
    38 mm, 22.03 g
    Ref.: Olding 70; Kluge 123.3; v. Schrötter 463; Davenport 2590

    Ob.: FRIDERICVS BORVSSORUM REX, Laureate portrait right
    Rev.: EIN REICHSTALER 17 (A) 77 Crowned eagle flying (open wings) over flags and canons, looking left above; to right and left banner points
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    and some small pocket change:

    AR, ⅓ Thaler, Breslau, 1773
    29 mm, 8.11 g
    Ref.: Olding 88; v. Schrötter 550; KM 303

    Ob.: FRIDERICVS BORVSSORUM REX, Laureate portrait right
    Rev.: 3 EINEN REICHS THALER 1773 within palm and laurel branches. Mint mark B (3 einen thaler means one-third of a Thaler)
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  5. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Nice Friedrich Der Grosse coins:) One of the greatest captains of history. Took on three Empires and won.

    Here is a another coin from his reign... 27707eef844cd27cf08b467e81329f81.jpg
    AV Friedrichs d'or 1777-A Berlin Mint
    Friedrich II Der Grosse
     
  6. HoledandCreative

    HoledandCreative Well-Known Member

  7. FredJB

    FredJB Active Member

    Fantastic condition!! I wonder if he had two warts as shown on the coin of if those are minting flaws?
     
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  8. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    Maybe that's why they called him Gross Freddie?
     
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  9. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Fault is with coin/ dies. Here is a portrait of Der Grosse Konig. o-FREDERICK-THE-GREAT-570.jpg
     
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  10. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    another one from Germany
    AV Dukat ND (1734) Kassel Mint (less then 5 known)
    Hesse-Kassel Landgrafschaft
    Karl I
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  11. Seba79

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  12. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Although I've never set out intentionally to collect German coins, I do have a few silver thalers from the 17th and 18th centuries:

    Saxe-Altenburg, AR Broad Thaler 1624, Four Dukes (the sons of Friedrich Wilhelm I). Obv. Johann Philipp /Rev. his three brothers, Friedrich, Johann Wilhelm, & Friedrich Wilhelm II. Davenport 7371.

    Saxe-Alternburg 1624 4 Dukes Obv. 1.jpg

    Saxe-Altenburg 1624 4 Dukes Rev. 1.jpg

    Saxony (Albertine Line), AR Broad Thaler 1626, Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony. Davenport 7601.

    Saxony 1626 Johann Georg Obv. 1.jpg

    Saxony Johann Georg 1626 Rev. 1.jpg

    Regensburg [Ratisbon] (then a Free Imperial City), AR City View Thaler 1754. Obv. Francis I (Holy Roman Emperor) / Rev. View of Regensburg. Davenport 2618.

    Regensburg - Francis I 1754 Obv 1.jpg

    Regensburg -Francis I 1754 (City View) Rev. 1.jpg

    Nuremberg (then a free Imperial City), AR City View Thaler 1779. Obv. City View of Nuremberg / Rev. Double-Headed Imperial Eagle (Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor). Davenport 2495.

    Nurnberg 1779 City View Obv 1.jpg

    Nurnberg 1779 City View Rev. 2.jpg

    I also have a couple of Reichsthalers from Brandenburg-Prussia, which I find of particular interest given the fact that my mother and maternal grandfather were born in Berlin, and my ancestors in that branch of my family lived in various provinces belonging to Prussia from no later than 1671 (when one of my 8th-great-grandfathers was the head of one of the 50 Jewish families invited by the Great Elector to settle in Brandenburg-Prussia after the Jews were expelled from Vienna in 1670) until May 27, 1941.

    Prussia, AR Reichsthaler 1786A, Berlin. Obv. Bust of Friedrich II (der Große) right / Rev. Prussian eagle. KM 332.1

    Friedrich II 1786 Reichsthaler Obv 1.jpg

    Friedrich II 1786 Reichsthaler Rev. 1.jpg

    [one more in next post]
     
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  13. DonnaML

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    Prussia, AR Reichsthaler 1790A, Berlin. Obv. Bust of Friedrich Wilhelm II / Rev. Prussian eagle.

    Fried. Wilhelm II 1790 Reichsthaler Obv. 1.jpg

    Friedrich Wilhelm II Reichsthaler 1790 Rev. 1.jpg
     
  14. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    Wow, I feel like I just walked through a museum in Germany.
     
  15. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    You should see on "ancient coin forum" her antiquities collection;) !!!!!
    John
     
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  16. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    To continue after DonnaML excellent posts!
    Imperial City of Frankfurt
    AV Dukat 1745 Frankfurt Mint
    HRE Franz I 1745-65
    This coin was struck as a commerative for election of Franz Von Lothringen as the new HRE/ after Karl VII died. IMG_0167.JPG IMG_0168.JPG IMG_0170.JPG
     
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  17. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    Wow these coins were so amazing to see. Envy is the word. Thank you for sharing these. Wow.
     
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  18. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Thank you! I particularly like the astonishingly sharp degree of detail that you can still see on the two city views when you zoom in on them -- all the tiny buildings and windows and bridges and waterways and so on. I even wonder if the white areas on the tops of steeples and walls, etc. on the Regensburg view are just discoloration, or are actually supposed to represent snow.

    Sometimes I wish I had bought more German coins from that time-period back in the day, instead of focusing on British coins and historical medals, which is what I mostly did back in the 80s, 90s. and 00s. In some ways, they can be more interesting. Now, I mostly collect ancient coins, which I very much enjoy.
     
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  19. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    Thanks! And I am equally admiring of your astounding collection of gold coins. I wish I had taken photos of the 40 or 50 British gold coins I used to own, going back to James I -- mostly purchased in the 1980s and 1990s -- before I sold most of them about five years ago. You might have found them interesting. (I still have a dozen or so, but they're more recent and are largely still in my safe deposit box.) I don't even want to think about how much they'd be worth now if I hadn't sold them, especially considering that I only received about 40-50% of their 2015 retail value for them. Which was still more than I paid for them originally, so in a way I still ended up ahead.
     
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  20. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    True, British gold coins have skyrocketed in past 10 years. I remember in recent Stack NY event that Willam III/ Mary AV 5 Guineas, smashed previous record by a lot.
     
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  21. Chris B

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    I'll throw a few on here.

    The 1st one is where my Avatar comes from.
    1675 Wildman - It is still the best-struck wildman image that I have.
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    1863 Frankfurt Thaler - Not rare but high grade

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    And the last one is a more recent addition. 1741 Saxony 1/2 Thaler

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