World silver crown-size type coin collectors?

Wow!!! That's a very cool one.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Germany BRUNSWICK-LUNEBURG-CALENBERG Ernst August Reichstaler 1690

 

I'm pretty sure I haven't posted this one before.


Oberse Legend: BREMER STATGELT
16 72
24 GROT
HL

Reverse: Double Eagle within a circle
Reverse Legend: LEOPOLD D:G:ROM:IMP:SEMP:AUG:

Engraver: Hermann Luders

Composition: Silver

 

A dream coin I purchased it from Harlen J Berk Buy or Big sale.


Ferdinand VI (1747 - 1759)
Mexico AR 8 Reales
O: FERDND·VI·D·G·HISPAN·ET IND·REX M F 8, Crowned arms shield flanked by value and initials.
R: VTRAQUE VNUM; Mo 1756 MoCrowned hemispheres flanked by crowned pillars.
27g
39mm
KM#104.2

 

Great piece! This same issue is what hooked me on talers years ago.

 

I like it a lot and i want a 1698 one too!

 

@PaulTudor Your coin inspired me to look for one of these. It was tougher than I anticipated. I found this one but it isn't nearly as nice as yours. Apparently, I just missed a better one on vcoins. I may have to keep an eye out for a nicer one.

 

It's very challenging to find a well preserved one, not to mention getting it at a good price! I was lucky to get it quite cheap on ebay, but in an auction the price would have been double for sure. I've attached a link with the last Aste Bolaffi auction, they had a few interesting piastre for sale, some like mine and i was barely able to get a tallero and a piastra of De Medici. My suggestion is to go for a VF at least, don't even bother with lower grades. As a rule , i would buy an italian large crown in VG-F only if it's R4-R5 Varesi, a few pieces known, like my Bozzolo tallero, for everything else it has to be a decent VF !

https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=sale&sid=3971&cid=121222

 

1698 Tallero, Cosimo III de Medici, port view of Livorno

 

1642 Piastra , Ferdinand II de Medici, Saint John the Baptist ( R3 Varesi)

 

Two more Tuscans

Francesco I Piastre 1575 (with St. John Baptist looking the other way)

 

TUSCANY

and Ferdinando I

Piastre 1601 (with St. John baptising Jesus)



and a 1607 Tallero for Pisa

 

1571 Cologne taler

 

Germany BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH Christian Ernst Medallic Taler 1664

Christian Ernst was under the regency of Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg until 1664. This coin was struck to commemorate his becoming a captain of the Franconian Circle, one of the regions of the Holy Roman Empire, on reaching his majority. The reverse shows the coats of arms of the member states of the Circle.

 

And here is a 1624 Taler of the Franconian Circle itself.

When coinage laws for the whole Empire were formulated by the Diet of Augsburg in 1559, the regional circles were the natural enforcement authorities for what should or should not circulate. They had no real right to coin on their own , but by the Bayersdorf convention of 1624 the bishops of Bamberg and Würzburg and the margraves of Brandenburg -Ansbach & Brandenburg-Bayreuth agreed on a common striking. This did not represent the whole Franconian Circle but, except for Nuremberg, it included the most powerful rulers (Davenport).

 

I shall post my poorer version here too, just to say that I have it

 

1623 Pallas Taler

 

Here is one you don't see every day.
1624-37 German States - Emden 28 Stüber
All of these that I have seen have looked pretty rough, including this one. Karl Stephens current list had this one on it so I snagged it. My first coin from Emden.

 

I once had a very similar collection. My parameters were that it had to be silver, had to be uncirculated, and had to fit into a US Half Dollar 2x2. It really made quite an impressive binder of coins, and most of them were inexpensive enough that I could add multiple coins every month. My weight limit was slightly higher because I included silver Florins which generally run 11.5 grams (or at least the British ones do!). The 2 Korona coins from Norway were probably the most desirable pieces thus more expensive, but there were plenty of interesting communist issues too that were very inexpensive to add. I sold the set off once I narrowed my collection to TPG coins only, and surprisingly actually made a few dollars on many of them.

 

Here's a couple examples of 50c size coins that were in the collection. Most of these were acquired for less than $12 back in the 1990s, some for as little as $5 or $6.. By 2004 when I sold them on eBay, a few were worth $20 or more, and hardly any of them had gone down in value. Compare that to modern US commemoratives issued in the 1990s at considerably greater cost, and that had plunged in value by 2004.