This is my first of a few new pickups. This one intrigued me because of the figure on the obverse. He is known as Chronos, Chronus, and father time. The sickle represents the harvesting (or destruction) of all things, as nothing survives the test of time. Of all the ones I found online, this showed the most detail of Chronos and I kind of like the darker toning to the coin. Feel free to pile on with your own Chronos and/or Nürnberg coins!
Thank you! There are more available, prices vary: https://www.ma-shops.de/shops/search.php?submitBtn=&searchstr=Nurnberg+kreuzer+1799&catid=1148 I like yours as well!
Pretty and symbolic coin! I don't believe I have ever seen the type. (I would have thought the reclining figure represents a river god, but the sickle rules that out). I do have this Nuernberg 1507 Goldgulden in my collection.
NUREMBERG Reichsguldiner (60 Kreuzer) 1638 On the obverse is St. Sebaldus, the patron saint of Nuremberg who is interred in St. Sebaldus Church, built between the 1230s and 1275. A missionary and hermit ( in the woodland of Poppenreuth, west of Nuremberg), his origins are obscure, even by the standards of medieval patron saints. One of the earliest legends (ca 1280) claims Sebaldus was a contemporary of Henry III (died 1056) and was of Franconian origin. After a pilgrimage in Italy, he became a preacher at Nuremberg. Another text claims that he was a Frankish nobleman who met Willibald and Winibald in Italy (thus dating his life to the 8th century) and later became a missionary in the in the Sebalder Reichswald. Other legends claim he was either the son of the king of Denmark or a student in Paris who abandoned his French princess wife on their wedding night to go on a pilgrimage to Rome.
