For comparison, here is my (well-worn) Ecu à six livres 1793D (Lyon). Here the date looks regular. The edge reads LIBERTÉ - EGALITÉ. 29 g, 39...
Weight, dimensions?
Must be a newer edition. Mine is 4th edition copyright 2008, and it doesn't show anything smaller than a thaler for Saxe-Weimar (which is on page...
This coin is being offered as such, and looks interesting, but I can't find anything similar in my Standard Catalog. Unfortunately no data are...
Another contemporary is this Venetian grosso from 1289 - Giovanni Dandolo?[ATTACH]
And a contemporary Gros Tournois[ATTACH] Funny how this tournois design got used in English (see Edward II maile blanche above) & German coinage...
Here's my long-cross penny London[ATTACH]
My newest: Ecu à 6 livres, Louis XVI, "Roi des Francois" 1792. The following year there wasn't a Roi anymore.[ATTACH]
And here is a 1959 10 Peso piece, 8.3 g 22.5 mm.[ATTACH] Of course these are not what is generally referred to a "bullion" coins, meaning coins...
Here is the original Libertad, "1947" 50 peso piece. Apparently much restruck.[ATTACH]
Briefly, 1) the denomination in modern bullion coins is an arbitrary value (cf. US 5-oz silver "quarter") which allows them to be classified as...
Right you are, Christian. Thanks.
And here's my newest coin and first cob coin. A Mexican 8 reales, sold as Philip II (1556-98), all I can say for sure is that the design is at...
Here is my one and only 2/3 Thaler (Cleves 1693), which I got because it seemed such an odd denomination, but now know was about equivalent to a...
Actually this one is not Hamburger, but Harburger Gummi-Kamm Co (Harburger rubber comb co.) and the pictures are supposed to be of the founders of...
1962 copper-nickel Baht Rama IX aka King Bhumibol https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1701.html
I had always thought the French rather mean-spirited for insisting on swingeing reparations after WWI, but then I learned they were just getting...
Now I'm intrigued. Here's mine, which I have always just assumed was authentic. Same year 1875S, but to me the leaves on the olive branch look a...
What makes you think that? 27 g, 38.5 x 2 mm
I love 'em. Here 's my "Lima" half-crown, minted from captured Spanish silver (which was mostly mined in Lima). Sort of a "Rah, rah, we're the...
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