Sorry, going back for a moment to 1661 and 1662 and wishing to add a bit to the luigini discussed earlier, here are three luigini from different...
Transylvania Michael Apafi (1661-90) 4 Taler 1662[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I am NOT trying to jump ahead to 1661 but this miserable coin is a postscript to Kimotej's Karl XI Riga solidus. It is a forgery of his coin,...
And this is my 1663 entry, although I may be cheating. It is an undated 1/2 cruzado of Joao IV of Portugal(1640-56). In 1663 Afonso VI...
Here is my 1664 entry: a Guastalla Scudo of Ferrante III Gonzaga with on the reverse a statue of Ferrante I holding a spear, standing on a fallen...
Good Habsburg jaw !
Saxony, Albertine Line 1666 Taler of Johann Georg I [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I have this very worn Louis XVI 1788 copper sol with a B countermark on the neck on the obverse. I have not been able to find anything about such...
Besançon 1/2 Taler[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Emperor Charles V granted Besançon the mint right in 1526 and the city kept his picture on their coins for...
I hope so. The genuine Dombes 1669 1/2 ecu he just posted has the same reverse arms and on the obverse the bust of the lady who started it all,...
Here is a 1668 luigino of Lucca. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] As you may well know, the story of luigini (sometimes spelled luidgini) is an interesting one....
And, when we are ready to move on to 1669, here is a 1669 Anhalt 8 Gute Groschen struck in Zerbst, a joint issue of Johann Georg II of...
This is a long way from panzerman's gorgeous dukat but here is a humble 1670 1/16 Taler ( or Düttchen) from Bremen & Verden when ruled by Karl XI...
Very interesting. With regard to your article about the late 14th century tournois in Greece, I assume it would be of great interest to various...
As Seth 77 (who are the other 76 ? ) says, the denier tournois started as a local coinage before Philip II Augustus turned it into a royal coinage...
Although G is normally the Poitiers mintmark, I do not think this coin was struck in Poitiers. In 1654, faced with a great shortage of low value...
Another great resource on Italian coins is Corpus Nummorum Italicorum, the massive 20 volume work based on the collection of King Vittorio...
This is probably outside your field of interest but Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1626-27) struck a ducatone (and half ducatone) with this...
I don't know how much time Archduke Leopold spent in Vienna. Innsbruck was the Habsburg capital until 1665 when the imperial family moved to...
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