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<p>[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 9819, member: 669"]The obverse legend is FRANC. (Franz or Francis), D.G. (by the Grace of God), R.I.S.A. (Emperor of the Romans Ever August), A.GER.IER.REX (of Germany and Jeruselem King). According to the 18th Century Standard catalog of World Coins (Krause) that legend should finish with "Lo B.M.H.D.", meaning either "Duke of Lorraine, Bar, and /Greater Etruria" (on coins of the German City-State Nurenburg), or "Duke of Lorraine and Bar, Grand Duke of Tuscany" on Austrian cons.</p><p><br /></p><p>It might make it easier to locate your coin in Krause if you would post it's diameter. From the color I'm assuming it's gold, but ? ? ?</p><p><br /></p><p>(Austrian gold coins of that era seem to catalog at a minimum of about NZ$125)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 9819, member: 669"]The obverse legend is FRANC. (Franz or Francis), D.G. (by the Grace of God), R.I.S.A. (Emperor of the Romans Ever August), A.GER.IER.REX (of Germany and Jeruselem King). According to the 18th Century Standard catalog of World Coins (Krause) that legend should finish with "Lo B.M.H.D.", meaning either "Duke of Lorraine, Bar, and /Greater Etruria" (on coins of the German City-State Nurenburg), or "Duke of Lorraine and Bar, Grand Duke of Tuscany" on Austrian cons. It might make it easier to locate your coin in Krause if you would post it's diameter. From the color I'm assuming it's gold, but ? ? ? (Austrian gold coins of that era seem to catalog at a minimum of about NZ$125)[/QUOTE]
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