Hallo Eduard, was ist Ihre preferierte Sprache: English oder Deutsch? Ich wollte fragen was Ihre icon/avatar ist, sieht aus wie das Maske von...
Thanks for the link. Looks useful.
That's it! History kept the Strasbourg mintmasters busy that year.
Here's my 1815 L (for Louis) decime. Still looking for the 1815 N companion piece.
My son-in-law found this coin in his parents' attic. To my surprise, I couldn't find it in the Standard Catalog for the 19th Century (6th...
The post "I was emailed by a counterfeiter" was a real wakeup call. I don't much like the idea of slabbing coins, after all I want to hold them...
Wow, spectacular! Especially the Louis d'Or. I know the face from the Ecu, but have never seen this Louis before.
... and here are 10- and 20-centimes. I found it interesting that the Vichy govt was apparently running out of aluminum to make coins with by...
and finally some Vichy money, which is worth very little but I find historically interesting. Easily distinguished by the legend ETAT FRANCAIS...
1933 5 Francs, still 3d. republic[ATTACH][ATTACH]
Here's a 1920 Marianne, which is neither very old nor very rare, but I think one of the prettiest coins ever struck.[ATTACH][ATTACH]
Here's a 5 Franc piece from Charles X (the man who commented he "would rather hew wood" than be a constitutional monarch) and ran up enormous...
A Teston of Charles IX (the man who brought you the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Protestants): [ATTACH][ATTACH]
Thanks for opening this thread, Siberian Man. Here are a few coins from my collection to fill in some holes in yours. To start with, a Louis...
... and here is a nice comparison to the 5 Franc piece from 1875, 50 Francs from 1976, after a 100-to-1 revaluation (i.e. = 5000 old Francs) which...
Right you are, but then why isn't it in Krause? Does it not qualify as a "real coin" for some reason? Or am I just naive about the Standard...
This coin is being sold as a "Turkish" Rechenpfennig (a contradiction in itself), and, aside from the word TVRCKI on the obverse there is nothing...
Thanks! Very informative, just the sort of info I was looking for. One has to know in advance what the "writing" is suposed to say to recognize...
I have one of these too. And, if you're interested, so did Goethe in his coin collection.
Here is a "coin" my brother-in-law won for riding. Doesn't seem to be a medal since it has no ring for a ribbon. I doubt it's very valuable, but...
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