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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 11631869, member: 10461&quot;]Looks real.&nbsp; Perhaps ex-jewelry.&nbsp; The edge marks are ornamental, as made.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me sniff up some data for you.&nbsp; But in the meantime, vis-a-vis your answer about its premium over the gold bullion value (i.e., spot/melt), the answer is, &quot;probably not much&quot;.&nbsp; A lot of these late-19th century European and Latin Monetary Union gold issues trade at a pretty modest premium over their spot value, particularly if they&#039;ve been mounted in jewelry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again, it could have received those rim marks in circulation.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t have the grossly overpolished look of some ex-jewelry gold coins, thankfully.</p><p><br /></p><p>(<b>Edit to clarify:</b> I was not talking about those ornamental incuse marks on the edge, but rather some irregularities along the rim I initially noticed.&nbsp; But never mind- on second glance, I think those are normal and within the range of acceptability.&nbsp; Perhaps this is not an ex-jewelry coin after all.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, being from the German state of Baden rather than, say, Prussia or France or Switzerland or whatever, maybe it&#039;s a tad scarcer.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will say that I like this sort of European gold because it offers a bit of history alongside the bullion value.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.antiquesage.com/optionality-old-gold-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.antiquesage.com/optionality-old-gold-coins/" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s a good article about that.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, a-Googling I shall go, to look your coin up...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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