Following on from jgenn's 1658 crown of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, here is a shilling...
Germany SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-PLÖN Joachim Ernst Taler 1625 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The mintmark after the first part of the date is not clear but I think it is a head (= Brussels). Assuming that is correct, your coin is KM 72.2,...
Coarse hair seems an accurate description but not very respectful to a monarch
Germany City of HILDESHEIM Emperor Matthias Taler 1619 [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And HILDESHEIM Emperor Ferdinand II Taler 1626 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Germany Duchy of BREMEN & VERDEN Karl XI of Sweden Taler 1673 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Germany Duchy of FRANCONIA Bernhard von Saxe-Weima 1/28 Taler (Salvatorschilling) 1633 The value 28R is in an oval above the arms on the...
Germany STRALSUND 1/16 Taler 1624 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
They are tough sentences but I don't think the crime was petty. Of the 30 coins retrieved (out of an estimated 300), five were of the "Two...
When will the Amex Gold Card become the Platinum Card and vice-versa ?
These guys are going to jail and for good reason. They were also incredibly stupid. Under Britain's very fair and very successful Portable...
Rather new but very attractive and with a link back to 1774 when, I discovered, Juan Perez led an expedition which made the first documented...
Italy CASALE Vincenzo I Gonzaga Scudo (12 bianchi) n.d.(1587-1612) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
We receive a misdelivered letter 2 or 3 times a month, often for the neighbour or a house with the same number on a nearby street but occasionally...
Well, I had not heard this terrible story before. I clicked on LIKE but I then realized that might be misunderstood. To be clear, I like an...
SCOTLAND Charles II 1/8 Dollar (1/2 Merk or 6 Shillings 8 Pence) 1676 - although no value shown on coin [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Same guy. Louis II, count of Flanders, Nevers & Rethel (1346-83) was also known as Louis de Malle or du Mallet (he was born in the château de...
(Same thread, proletarian non-gold edition) Italy LAST DUKE OF URBINO Armellino n.d. After his son's premature death in 1623, Francesco Maria...
But panzerman promised us a Hungarian gold gulden struck in 1433
IRELAND 6 Pence n.d.(1643-44) Struck by the Royalist government during the Irish Rebellion; called Ormond Money after the Earl of Ormond,...
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