German States stuff is absolutely addicting. If you are buying thalers and gulden, then there are lots of cool commemoratives for wars and...
The dates are 1509-1564 (Calvin's birth and death)
This medal (and I am just going to assert that it is a medal as opposed to a paperweight or something else) might be the most unusual one yet. It...
Man, this is another collecting rabbit hole that is hard to resist. Every time I see Italian states minors, the pull is strong.
Look for "Evasion Halfpenny" or similar.
My main collecting theme is anything related to the Protestant Reformation, but I absolutely love city-view thalers. It is an expensive side...
The silver purity in these Weimar coins is pretty low, so it is common to see "yellow" or "brown" coins in the high circulated grades.
Nice ducat, and, once again, it is a Protestant Reformation piece. I don't know why so many of these particular commemoratives are chronograms,...
I found one of those in a tobacco basket of $.50/each coins once. I asked the dealer if he wanted to know if I found a real treasure, which of...
Awesome medal--I love William "The Silent" stuff. He's a pretty interesting figure. Fun fact: he was the first head of state executed by...
I had a fight with ANACS a couple of years ago. I made a large (for me) submission of about 40 Kaiserreich-era 2/3/5 Mark coins. If you don't...
Dadler has to be one of my favorite medalists of all time, and certainly the best of the 17th century. Absolutely stunning piece.
Baden is really interesting--while basically everyone else in 19th century pre-Prussian-Empire-Germany was only making commemoratives in thaler or...
The Shakespeare medal is from the famous "Series Numismatica" set of portrait medals by Durand. Durand did the reverses for the medals, and other...
Here is another vote for adjustment marks.
Not sure if this would count as a "ruler," but my avatar depicts the death/martyrdom of John Hus, proto-Protestant reformer in Bohemia who was...
That thaler is 1861; it was minted for the coronation of Wilhelm I.
Yes, 1936 is a scarcer date and seems to command a premium well over cat value. Definitely something worth trying to cherry pick if you are ever...
Awesome piece. Thanks for the write-up.
Never seen a deer with a tail like that, though.
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