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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 139295, member: 669&quot;]<img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />, both to CoinTalk and to the blissful state of marriage Scott.<img src="http://bestsmileys.com/cheering/1.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>May you and <i>your</i> Beautiful Bride have as much joy over the next half-century as my own BB and I have had in the last one.<img src="http://forums.collectors.com/i/expressions/dancing%20smiley.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Given the information on the card, and the pristine state of the coins, I would guess that they are modern restrikes of silver coins which circulated at the turn of the 16th Century.&nbsp; There are no general references for pre-17th Century coins, as the Krause Standard Catalogs only go back to 1601; so information on the original coins may or may not exist in specialized English-language books, although there are undoubtedly Italian references with information.&nbsp; (I got only Italian websites with a Google search. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not uncommon for modern governments to produce copies of historically significant coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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