Never saw it, but I can go one better. I've got one of the coins somewhere which i'll try to dig out over the weekend. A contact I have in NZ was...
..so if I put a footnote against a sale of a Churchill crown saying `I know a guy who thinks that he is really the man in the moon' would add...
I agrre with Roy excepting I would would have categorised the rather large nickel as a `fantasy' piece (or paperweight / hockey puck). Tokens are...
I can't agree. That's a medal surely. If it is to be categorised in any way as a coin it would need to have a legal tender status. Can you tell...
I like what the mint says that `it's sure to be a real collectors item'. I remember them saying that back in 1965 when they issued the Churchill...
The Elsen cat no 67 (sept 2001) has two ducatons listed for Brabant. the first is just a teeny bit better condition than the op's, and dated 1668...
Thanks for the KM reference Doug. I used to have a two vol reference on the Lowlands Patagons, Ducatons and Double Ducatons, (can't even...
I don't have an up to date KM, but I can tell you that the Ducaton in question was issued for the area known as Brabant in the Low Countries...
wooden cocktail sticks / toothpicks come in pretty handy for cleaning crud off coins like these. ;-) Ian
Hi Doug, I don't know about you, but I find Krause very confusing when it comes to this period of Scandinavian coinage. I've come across a few...
First guess = 6,352 and John second = 6,352 and Peter third = 6,352 and Bill Ian
To find some J D'arc jetons on Delcampe do a search using the keyword arc and under `coins'. It turns up sixteen or so items one of which is the...
I'm pretty sure that the milled ones were `cold' minted. I'm being cagey about saying `struck' because there were different methods employed. For...
Sadly, there are no `Joan of Arc' coins (at least not that I have ever seen). Granted, these do look `coin like' but they are not coins. They...
You are correct. The person depicted on the coin is either John I or Charles II of Lorainne. I'm not sure which. The Maid of Orleans did not...
The 1670 is a `Ducaton' of the Spanish Netherlands. Flanders to be exact , and issued during the reign of Charles II. You will see `FLAN' in the...
.....some more bits n' bobs from Austria:- [img] [img] an early MT taler from Burgau [img] [img] a late MT taler from Burgau [img] [img]...
Here's a couple more crown size silver pieces i have in my collection, this time from the Low Countries [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img]...
Here's an earlier thread, which led to some dialogue concerning the person depicted on it....
R U sure Bone (?) If the first one is as brassy looking in the flesh as it looks in the scan, then it is undoubtedly a fake. It's supposed to be...
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