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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 8300366, member: 102103&quot;]Found my other jubilee coin. </p><p>Papal States, 1600, Clement VIII</p><p>The Krause guides only go back to 1601, so I&#039;m not 100% sure about my attribution, but it fits the pattern of the other Holy Year coins.[ATTACH=full]1468309[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the original coin, I don&#039;t know a good guidebook for these kinds of medals.&nbsp; I would imagine they don&#039;t circulate, so the lack of wear is not necessarily&nbsp; a warning sign.&nbsp; But 200-400 year old copper does tend to show some greening of the surfaces, which I see on the pictures from the French seller, but not on the original set of photos.&nbsp; The original photos just don&#039;t look much like what I usually see 270+ year old copper to look like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are come other 1700s coppers just to compare the surfaces:</p><p>Margravate of Burgau, 1/4 Kreuzer, 1772-8[ATTACH=full]1468310[/ATTACH] </p><p>Burgau, Austria, 1 Kreutzer, 1772, Maria Theresa</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1468312[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Savoy 2 Denari 1717-1730</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1468313[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Naples, 1798, 5 Tornesi</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1468314[/ATTACH]</p><p>I have many more examples if you like, but I don&#039;t want to clutter up your thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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