Amazed you still have time for gardening ! I don't do AV but I have to admit they are the most beautiful - and the easiest to see in average...
Julich is a city with a lot of history. I don't think you posted any Julich siege coins. Well, they are pretty crude compared to gold ducats.
Beautiful, definitely qualifies. Let me add a dated 1615 taler. Holy Roman Empire ALSACE Archduke Maximilian Taler Ensisheim mint [ATTACH]...
48 celsius ? Where are you ?
Time to move on to 1616 ? Austria-Hungary Matthias I Taler 1616 Kuttenberg mint [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Also, about 90% of people never saw any of those beautiful ducats and talers and had to content themselves with inconveniently small, often...
Are you kidding ? I noticed you obviously know a lot about Russian coins but are you really a Siberian Man with a local coin shop which sells...
1618 Spanish Netherlands BRABANT Albert & Isabelle 2 Patagons [ATTACH] [ATTACH] and on the other end of the scale 1618 Germany ISENBURG...
Interesting countermark. 8 ? on a VIII maravedis.
1619 Italy FERRARA Pope Paul V Scudo [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 1619 France CHATEAU-RENAUD Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine 12 Kreuzer/ 3 Batzen...
I think Künker's error is easily explained. The cataloguer saw CAROLVS.II. D.G. DVX. on the obverse and, not knowing the intricacies of Gonzaga...
As I imagine you know, Huszár 895 is described as a Goldgulden. Panzerman's coin also seems to be a Huszár 895. Your weight of 3.55 g would...
Thank you for your interest. In fact I am interested in the heraldry per se which I find a fascinating aspect of early modern European coinage....
Good point. According to Huszár (Münzkatalog Ungarn), the gold coins before 1659 were all forints (in German gold gulden), not ducats. The...
Forint is the Hungarian word for fiorino or florin, the gold coin struck in Florence from 1252-1533 and copied in many countries including...
I am trying to decode the coat of arms on a Nevers-Rethel patagon of Charles III Gonzaga (1637-59) (also Duke of Mantua as Carlo II 1637-65)...
Good try, lordmarcovan. OK, here's another Kipper coin, dated 1620: Germany SOLMS - HOHENSOLMS Philipp Reinhard I Kipper 12 Kreuzer struck at...
Germany POMERANIA Bogislaw XIV Reichstaler 1631 with coat of arms full of griffins: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Rev.arms: Stettin (griffin r.), Pomerania...
I need help with a coat of arms of Nevers-Rethel. How do I start a new thread to see if anyone can help me ? I am sure it is explained somewhere...
There is a thread about griffins going. You could also post this groschen there and score 2 for 1
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