True but it is at least partly because they are almost always so badly displayed. The best coin display I ever saw was of a part of the amazing...
X is also on the original. It indicated that the coin had been struck according to the silver standard adopted in 1751. The original (but also...
This is a fascinating coin I have never seen before. I am very envious.
Italy DESANA Antonio Maria Tizzone Tallero n.d. ((1630-41) Copy of Taler of Ferdinand I before he became Emperor(1531-58) This coin is in...
FRANCE Louis XVI Copper Sol 1788 Lille mint Does anyone have any ideas about the B c/m on the obverse ? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
MEDALLIC TALERS - Postscript on Löser One important category of medallic multi-talers I did not mention, and should have, are the Löser struck...
CONCLUDING ON MEDALLIC TALERS Here is a medallic Schautaler struck by Lorenz von Bibra, Bishop of Würzburg, in 1511 (29.49 g). It is in fact the...
CONTINUING ON MEDALLIC TALERS As PaulTudor pointed out, Krause has a more liberal approach to including Medallic Talers than Davenport. Here is...
Interesting discussion. There are certainly about 50 shades of grey between Talers and Medals. I often use PaulTudor's description Medallic...
Germany BRUNSWICK-DANNENBERG Julius Ernst Reichstaler 1625 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Germany Bishopric of BAMBERG Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Staufenberg Taler according to Zinna Standard 1687 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Germany WURTTEMBERG Gröschlein or 1/37.5 of a Gulden 1593 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Spectacular - and over 2400 years old still in fabulous condition !
ENGLAND Edward III Noble n.d. (1369-77) Calais mint [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Biafra was created when a region in the south of Nigeria declared independence in 1967. A bloody civil war followed, won by Nigerian government...
Correct
Germany City of FREIBURG im Breisgau Taler n.d. (1714) This coin was struck to commemorate the Treaty of Baden (Switzerland), signed on 7...
France BOUILLON & SEDAN 1/4 Ecu 1596 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This coin is a duit. 5 1/16 G means 5 duit = 1/16 Gulden. The coin was struck in Amsterdam in anticipation of the Dutch recovering their East...
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