Zohar/ you really got some beautifull thalers. Kunker had an auction of mining thalers/ many Double/triple/Quadruple up to ten thalers...amazing...
Here is my best Regensburg coin... AV 3 Dukaten ND 10.46g. 28mm. Struck for Franz I 1745-65 Holy Roman Emperor Imperial City of Regensburg obv....
Here is mine...AV Dukat 1646 A-I (Weissenburg Mint) struck for Georg Rakozcki I 1630-48 Prince of Transylvania. Transylvania made some mouth...
Karl VII had a distinctive nose/ like William III of Orange. That is a beautifull Thaler/ sometimes I am tempted to start a collection of...
The Bern "Brown Bear", such a neat design, like the "Basilisk" for Basel. Yours is very good quality!
Thanks for info/ amazing photos I remember getting NFA auction catalogue with the "mintstate" Saturninus Aureus... it sold for around 235K. Who...
Here is another... AV Dukat ND 3.48g./22mm. obv. City View rev. Habsburg Double Headed Eagle Ruler: Holy Roman Emperor Franz II 1792-1805...
Please post your coins from Regensburg....I will start with second smallest AV coin ever made. AV 1/32 Dukat ND circa 1770 9mm. 0.11 grams obv....
Thanks Alurid! Here is another one.... Swiss Cantons/Graubunden AV 16 Franken 1813 7.63g. Only 100 were minted![ATTACH]
Here is my contribution.... AV Doppeldublone 1797 Berne[ATTACH] Mint 15.28g. Swiss Cantons/ Berne
Now, that is a fabulous coin, the mintmasters of the period 1600-1750 produced magnificent coins!
Thanks for that info, the presentation box/coins are beautifull. Four oz. AV coins (1000 Shillings) are equal in weight, to the classic 40 Dukaten...
I have a 1969 Uganda Proof Set 4 AV/6AR coins. The 1000 Shillings coin weighs 138g. 69mm=to a 40 Dukaten coin. 1st coin middle row. Rest are...
One should never handle any coin, unless wearing special coin handling gloves. Coins are best preserved by looking/ not touching them. Example, my...
Actually, here where I live we have lots of snowy owls. But the most common owl is the Great Horned Owl. Sometimes we even get a Great Grey...
Thanks! Yes, Medieval era ends with the termination of the "Hundred Years War" circa 1450. From that point on we have the "Renaissance era"
For Lordmarcovan... Here is one of my early dated European coins. AV Goldgulden 1497 Frankfurt Mint 3.50g. 22mm. Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor...
Great minds think alike, I also have that book. I have early dated coins from 700AD -1400's....probably 40 or so. But that is unfair, they are...
Today, I have no appetite to get the modern stuff/ I cannot stand the "coloured coins/motifs like Superman/ modernistic art designs.Now, had i...
In 1988 I won this 10 piece 1969 Proof Set from Stacks Auction for $1200US. This set has 4 AV coins 1000/500/100/50 Shillings=230g/7oz gold! The...
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