Finished my Master’s degree in Public Administration yesterday and am having a celebratory look at my father’s old coins and transferring them into mine. I ran across this one and just love it. Unfortunately most of his collection is still in PVC. So, I’m transferring them to non-pvc.
Further info on this coin I'm not a world coin collector, and neither was my father. I was able to discover it is a 2/3 and not a 1/2 as dad had thought. However, i haven't come up with much history concerning this coin. Does anyone have anything? Thanks!
Actually it's "Taler" in German, but in English the older spelling "thaler" is apparently used. The inscription GEORG WILH(elm) D(eo) G(ratia) DUX means "Georg Wilhelm Duke by the Grace of God", and "BR & L" refers to Braunschweig and Lüneburg. QUO FAS ET GLORIA DU**** is some military motto ("Where Duty And Glory Lead") ... PS - Seems the (automatic?) Forum Nanny replaced parts of the coin's inscription by asterisks. Maybe a coin dated 1694 is not proper enough for an American "1950s family television show". Christian
Oh, and as for your master's degree, congratulations! Here is more about Georg Wilhelm. You will also recognize the coat of arms depicted on that page ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William,_Duke_of_Brunswick-Lüneburg By the way, the horse that used to be a symbol of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and its sub-principalities can still be found in the CoA of the German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) that those areas are parts of today. Christian
Christian, Thank you so much for the information! I will add the information to my coin database. Scott
Excellent idea getting dad's coins out of those PVC holders before the green begins to creep in. I have 1/2 and full Swiss talers from the 1700's and have resisted the German coins. There are just too many and the prices are quite high. Your coin is one though that I have seen in auction catalogs and thought, "That's a nice one..." Must be the horse.
Hello sparkyg, Nice coin & congrats on the degree. Very best regards, collect89 P.S. Special thanks to christian for posting the great description of the coin.
2/3 Thaler Very handsome coin. I have a 2/3 thaler too. This curious denomination was apparently exactly equal to 1 Gulden at the time. Yes, there sure are a lot of German coins, one need only count the pages for Germany in any World Coin reference--Germany has more than just about any other "country" (Germany wasn't one country until 1871, and even afterwards until the end of WWI, each province had its own king (or maybe archduke). But they did know how to make good-looking coins!
Nice coin, and congratulations. I have one semester to go to complete a master's in social science with concentration in criminology. So, I understand why you feel like celebrating. For a class in Technology and Society, I wrote a paper on the technology of money.
mmarotta, Early congrats to you! Also, thank you for the information. Off the subject of coins, what do you plan to do with your degree? Sparky
nice 2/3 Thaler! I have a similar one that I posted before. I bought it because of the unusual denomination. It wasn't in PVC, but it has its own problems: http://www.cointalk.com/t60051/ Congrats on the MPA!
100mon, Love the coin you have! I would see the loop as less of a problem and more of an accent! It's a lovely coin and a quirky addition to your collection. Sparky
MY coin: 1/6 thaler 1786, weight - 5,2 g. Silver .563. Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand duke.
