And, just for Lord M., here are the 2 Zwingli medals from 1719 with chronogram dates on the obverse: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
So I am not really a chronogram collecter, per se, but I do collect Reformation pieces, and as wcg noted, there are a bunch of those with...
Interesting piece. What you have (had) there sure looks like a trial or old copy of a 1719 Zwingli piece from Zurich (celebrating the 200th...
What you have there is an 1855 commemorative of the 300th anniversary of the Peace of Augsburg (protestant/ Catholic truce that didn't last). Yes,...
Believe it or not, they made several different versions of this medal (different diameters, slightly different legends, gold & silver). A version...
Here is a pretty common Prussian 2 mark with some pretty flashy toning:[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
If your friend is a big Reformation fan, then he might be interested in some explicitly Luther/Reformation stuff. There are very few Lutheran...
Question for you big copper guys, especially the guys with Really Big Copper: How do you store your large medals/coins? In particular, how do...
I plucked a couple of British trade dollars from a dealer's junk silver bin for ~$10 or so back then.
Nice 1730 Augsburg Confession ducat.
Not idea, really. I picked up a random one in a batch of world coins and put on eBay for a low start price. It ended up going for just about $20...
Pretty sure that is a restrike of a 1642 2 Ducat piece....
I don't see any obvious problems with it. It looks like a one of the common modern restrikes, but that is not the same thing as being a counterfeit.
Yes. A thousand times yes, this is a fake.
It really depends on what you want to collect, where your interests are, and what your pocketbook allows. If you have deep pockets, like jgenn...
DOA 1/4 Rupie[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
German East Africa 1/4 Rupie. I can't make the pictures sparkle quite like it looks in hand.[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Newp, not my pics.[ATTACH]
ANACS has a silly rule that the date side of the coin is the obverse for world coins. Not that they apply it consistently, but they trot that...
Bottom left is a tin medal commemorating the 350th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation (Martin Luther on obverse). Of US manufacture....
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