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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8424271, member: 110226"]Interesting. Could it be from Correggio?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's another odd ball lion daalder, clearly an imitation, possibly Middle East, Indonesia, or some obscure city.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has a strange shield on the obverse, not with the typical rampant lion, but with a geometrical arrangement of three cone or triangular elements, two on the bottom and one in the middle pointing down. This is strange since one would expect a lion on the obverse, similar but smaller in scale to the one on the reverse. I tried to lookup 17th century coat-of-arms for cities in Germany and Italy, since many imitations emanated from cities within kingdoms of those regions, but with no luck.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is very crudely based on a lion daalder from Utrecht (TRA), either 1631 or 1681, the date's third numeral is quite muddled. The coin was hammer struck and the coin appears to be contemporary to the 17th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin weighs 21.3 grams, which puts it slightly over 75 percent of a lion daalder weight standard of 27.6800 grams. The coin's diameter is 40 mm, but the flan is fairly thin. I don't see any signs of a copper core or silver plating, unlike the half lion daalder of Franco Mazzetti that I posted earlier in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1494026[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Paul, do you think your Dutch connection might be able to help ID this coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8424271, member: 110226"]Interesting. Could it be from Correggio? Here's another odd ball lion daalder, clearly an imitation, possibly Middle East, Indonesia, or some obscure city. It has a strange shield on the obverse, not with the typical rampant lion, but with a geometrical arrangement of three cone or triangular elements, two on the bottom and one in the middle pointing down. This is strange since one would expect a lion on the obverse, similar but smaller in scale to the one on the reverse. I tried to lookup 17th century coat-of-arms for cities in Germany and Italy, since many imitations emanated from cities within kingdoms of those regions, but with no luck. The coin is very crudely based on a lion daalder from Utrecht (TRA), either 1631 or 1681, the date's third numeral is quite muddled. The coin was hammer struck and the coin appears to be contemporary to the 17th century. This coin weighs 21.3 grams, which puts it slightly over 75 percent of a lion daalder weight standard of 27.6800 grams. The coin's diameter is 40 mm, but the flan is fairly thin. I don't see any signs of a copper core or silver plating, unlike the half lion daalder of Franco Mazzetti that I posted earlier in this thread. [ATTACH=full]1494026[/ATTACH] Paul, do you think your Dutch connection might be able to help ID this coin? Thanks[/QUOTE]
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