Thank you for your comments. Yes, the piece is mine.
GOSLAR, a historic Saxon town in the Harz mountains mining region, was a residence of emperors in the Middle Ages and became a Free Imperial City...
Another minor in not great condition but with a certain charm Italy PAPAL STATES Sede Vacante Giulio n.d. (1521-22) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
A while ago we had an exchange about the falling value of the Taler over the centuries. I was looking today at this 1774 Anhalt mining Taler. As...
Thank you, that's the one !
I suppose you mean heraldic left - right in common parlance. I had forgotten I had posted that coin. There are a few other examples of stags...
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Emperor Ferdinand II Reichstaler 1625 St. Pölten mint [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Italy PAPAL STATES Pope Clement VII 1/4 Ducato n.d. (1527) These 1/4 Ducats (and similar 1/2 ducats and ducats) were struck to pay the 400,000...
Don't know the answer. Sounds a little suspicious.
But I regret I did not get any of the Talers. Glad someone had a good auction !
Wonderful example, as usual
Switzerland ZURICH 1/4 Taler 1652 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Italy NAPLES Emperor Charles V Three coins with different portraits as he aged Carlino n.d. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Tari n.d. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Two Talers of Cologne Germany Archbishopric of COLOGNE Adolf III von Schauenburg Taler 1556 [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Archbishopric of COLOGNE...
I am not the right person to ask about slabbing. I have never sent in a coin for slabbing in my life. I prefer my coins unslabbed so that I can...
Here's another Mansfeld Taler with a somewhat different St. George. MANSFELD Joint Issue of Günther IV, Ernst II, Hoyer VI, Gebhard VII &...
This appears to be AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Emperor Maximilian II Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1569 Joachimstal mint (Bohemian lion mm at bottom of obv.)...
Once again, very nice condition !
Germany MECKLENBURG Albrecht VII The Handsome (although he does not look so handsome here) Taler 1543 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
2 a day and we can enjoy them for a year
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