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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3108223, member: 112"]The coin you've pictured is one of Charles II, not Charles III. So I don't know what you'be been looking up but that may be part of the problem - then again maybe not, I don't know. </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is listed by the auction house that sold it as having been minted between 1601-1637 - <a href="https://www.kuenker.de/en/archiv/stueck/177872" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kuenker.de/en/archiv/stueck/177872" rel="nofollow">https://www.kuenker.de/en/archiv/stueck/177872</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And since Chalres II wasn't even born until 1629, then the coin could have been minted under his father Charles I, or him because he assumed the title in 1637 under the regency of his mother the Duchess Maria. So I'm just guessing here but I'm assuming that's why your trying to figure out the coat of arms because you're trying to figure out who the coin was minted under.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it's going to take some doing to figure it all out. I'd start here -</p><p><a href="https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Charles_II,_Duke_of_Mantua_and_Montferrat" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Charles_II,_Duke_of_Mantua_and_Montferrat" rel="nofollow">https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Charles_II,_Duke_of_Mantua_and_Montferrat</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3108223, member: 112"]The coin you've pictured is one of Charles II, not Charles III. So I don't know what you'be been looking up but that may be part of the problem - then again maybe not, I don't know. The coin is listed by the auction house that sold it as having been minted between 1601-1637 - [url]https://www.kuenker.de/en/archiv/stueck/177872[/url] And since Chalres II wasn't even born until 1629, then the coin could have been minted under his father Charles I, or him because he assumed the title in 1637 under the regency of his mother the Duchess Maria. So I'm just guessing here but I'm assuming that's why your trying to figure out the coat of arms because you're trying to figure out who the coin was minted under. But it's going to take some doing to figure it all out. I'd start here - [url]https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Charles_II,_Duke_of_Mantua_and_Montferrat[/url][/QUOTE]
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