Fascinating. Your knowledge of these complicated Civil War issues is very impressive.
Nice coin but it is not a city issue
Germany City of BREMEN 1/4 Taler 1651 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Of course ! I thought I had seen it somewhere before!
3 wild men ! Surely this also qualifies for the My Wildman Addiction thread !
Germany HESSE-CASSEL Wilhelm V The Steadfast Reichstaler 1627 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Germany BAVARIA Elector Karl Albert (1726-45) as Emperor Karl VII (1743-45) Reichstaler (so called Kaisertaler) 1743 Munich mint Karl Albert...
That should fill up all those COVID hours at home for the rest of the pandemic !
Switzerland ZURICH Schanzentaler c. 1707 Hans Jakob Gessler I became mintmaster in 1706. The Schanzentaler (Fortifications Taler) was among his...
Thank you
That Stephen is terrific (by Stephen standards) !
Germany BRUNSWICK-LUNEBURG-HANNOVER Georg II Duke & Elector (and also King of Great Britain and Ireland, plus an outdated, dubious claim to...
Here is a Pfalz Taler of the Winter King struck in Heidelberg in 1621. Although Friedrich's brief reign had ended with his defeat by Imperial...
Italy MANTUA Federico II Gonzaga Mezzo Testone n.d. (1519-30) Quite a classical head [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Some information on Johann Leonhard OEXLEIN from Forrer's Biographical Dictionary of Medallists: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
A somewhat similar style to his contemporary François I FRANCE François I Teston n.d. (1515-40) Rouen mint [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I won't click LIKE because I don't like fakes but thank you for posting. I am so scared of E-Bay fakes I have never bought anything there,...
Germany BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBUTTEL August II Taler 1656 28.78 g [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I don't know about the ping test but these coins are often quite beaten up. Taler, Daalder, écu , Daler and Tallero are in principle the same...
Returning to @panzerman's concept of beautiful city coins, even if not up to the standard of his gold Switzerland BASEL Taler n.d. (c. 1670)...
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