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Message:: [QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8265463, member: 110226"]That is a very nice lion daalder! The seller was correct.  TRAN stands for the province of Overijssel or "across the IJessl", a tributary of the Rhine River. Utrecht lion daalder obverse legends end with TRA or TRAI Overijssel lion daalders' obverse legends end with either TRAN or TRANS. Here's a link to a webpage on the lion daalder other contemporary Dutch coinage.  There's also a link within it to another page on the mints. <a href="https://coins.nd.edu/colcoin/colcoinintros/Lion-Dollar.intro.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.nd.edu/colcoin/colcoinintros/Lion-Dollar.intro.html" rel="nofollow">https://coins.nd.edu/colcoin/colcoinintros/Lion-Dollar.intro.html</a> If you look at my imitation lion daalder, 1638, on the first page, you'll see the legend ending in TRAN, but in this case the TRAN is an abbreviation for Transylvania.  It is a rare coin and very distinctive, especially for collectors with some experience with these coin. There is also a Transylvanian imitation lion daalder that another CT member, PaulTudor, posted before mine, on page one.  That coin's obverse legend ends with TRA, but it is also from Transylvania, the same date as my coin, 1638.  Again, as with my coin, the style is very distinctive and very different from the Dutch lion daalders.  It too is a very rare coin.[/QUOTE]