Germany Two from Hamburg Mark (16 Schilling) 1506 (a very Gothic 176 on the coin). Struck when Hamburg was part of the Wendish Monetary Union...
Enjoyed the video of your trip. Beautiful country ! And it never seemed to have rained ! To finish the story of Château-Renaud: Cardinal...
Very nice but it looks to me as if the Renaissance had not yet reached Rome in 1450 - or at least not the coinage
Italy SAVOY Carlo Emanuele I Ducatone 1590 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Château-Renaud (or in the old French spelling, Château-Regnault) has a lot of history and a lot of numismatics for a small town - today less than...
Austria-Hungary BOHEMIA Ferdinand I, King of Hungary & Bohemia (1527-31), King of Rome (1531-58) but not yet Emperor Taler n.d. (1541-42)...
ST. JUSTINA Italy VENICE Leonardo Donà Ducato (124 Soldi) n.d. (1606-12) St. Justina was born in Padua (not far from Venice) to a noble...
Another undistinguished little coin but from a new location Germany HAMELN Fürstengroschen (12 Pfennig) 1562 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The Romanian leu is the currency of Romania. It is subdivided into 100 bani ( singular: ban ), a word that also means "money" in Romanian.
Austria DIETRICHSTEIN-PULSGAU Sigismund Ludwig Taler 1646 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Gustavus Adolphus. King of Sweden and prominent Protestant general in the 30 Years' War in Germany, killed in battle The Battle of Lützen (6...
Germany Counts of SCHWARZBURG-SONDERSHAUSEN Günther XLII, Anton Heinrich, Johann Günther II & Christian Günther I - Joint Issue Reichstaler...
Germany FRANKENTHAL Uniface Siege 15 Batzenklippe 1623 At the start of the 30 Years war, the Emperor had defeated Friedrich, the Elector...
St. Lebouin Netherlands DEVENTER, CAMPEN, ZWOLLE -Joint Issue Daalder n.d. (1538) Born in England, Lebuinus was a monk in Wilfrid's monastery...
A modest little bianco in not great condition but quite a nice portrait Italy REGGIO EMILIA Ercole II d'Este Bianco n.d. (1542-44) [ATTACH]...
Germany Archbishopric of MAGDEBURG Cathedral Chapter Reichstaler 1638 The archbishopric of Magdeburg was long in the hands of the...
Nothing special but we have not had a St. George from Casale Italy CASALE Vincenzo I Gonzaga Ducatone 1594 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
FRANCE Louis XIV Ecu "carambole" 1685 Paris mint 41.5 mm 37.29 g The Franco-Dutch War (1672-78) ended with the Dutch Republic intact but...
Conrad III was elected King of the Romans, the traditional first step to becoming Holy Roman Emperor, but he was never elected emperor. In 1138,...
This is at the opposite end of the numismatic scale but adding to the range of cities on this thread Germany (Alsace) HAGENAU (now Haguenau in...
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