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Switzerland ZURICH 1/4 Taler 1652

 

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Gorgeous coin!
Basel/Bern/Chur/Zurich had very talented mint masters at that time. Today/ Swiss coins look like crap....what else is new? Really sad.

 

GOSLAR, a historic Saxon town in the Harz mountains mining region, was a residence of emperors in the Middle Ages and became a Free Imperial City in 1290. The city struck lots of coins, including these not so gorgeous minors.

Mariengroschen 1532



Körtling (imitation of Tyrol Etschkreuzer) n.d. (c.1550-58)


Kipper Groschen with Emperor Ferdinand II title 1620


Kipper 4 Groschen with Emperor Ferdinand II title 1621

 

Gorgeous coins Talerman! Thanks for sharing

 

AV 1/12 Dukat 1711
Breslau
HRE Josef I 1706-11

Breslau was a major city in Silesia/ at that time part of the Holy Roman Empire. Josef died in 1711 of smallpox.

 

Buenos Aires 1 Real 1840 (KM# 7)

 

Now, that's a gorgeous coin !

 

AV 2 Tari d'oro ND/ Messina Mint
Messina
Hohenstaufen Rulers of Sicily
HRE Friedrich II Von Hohenstaufen 1198-1250

Also known as Frederick Barbarossa/ he was also involved in the Third Crusade, part of an alliance with Philippe Augustus of France/ Richard I "Lion Hearted" of England.

 

Germany MÜHLHAUSEN in Thuringen 3 Pfennig 1757

The above billon coin has a diameter of only 13 mm and a weight of 0.97 g - easily lost. Not surprisingly, the city authorities decided that the lower denomination 2 Pfennig would be impossibly tiny if struck in silver or even billon (although some other states did that) and opted for a larger city copper issue (24 mm, 4.44 g) instead However, they could still have chosen a more imaginative design.

MÜHLHAUSEN in Thuringen 2 Pfennig 1757

 

Here is an oddball Swiss Half Guldentaler:

BASEL 1/2 Guldentaler (1/2 Plankustaler) 1571 featuring Lucius Munatius Plancus on the reverse

Lucius Munatius Plancus (87 -15 BC) , a disciple of Cicero, Roman senator and officer of Julius Caesar, was a brilliant speaker and successful politician known for changing sides several times. He defeated the Raetians in battle in 44 BC and subsequently founded the colonies of Lugdunum (Lyon) and Augusta Raurica (Kaiseraugst) on the Rhine in Gaul. In the 16th century he was erroneously recognised as also the founder of Basel (supposedly as a sub-colony of Raurica) and a city hero and his statue stands in the City Hall courtyard. Half guldentalers were struck in his honour in 1542 and 1571 and an undated (1620-50) Taler and (these are for Panzerman) two undated gold ducats in the 17th century.



His armour looks much more 16th century than Roman !

Here is his statue at the Basel Rathaus looking a bit more Roman:


Photo by Wladyslaw Disk, user of the German Wikipedia

 

Worms
AV Dukat 1619 Worms Mint
HRE Matthias II 1612-19
Coin was struck, one year into the "Thirty Years War"
obv: Lindworm=German Dragon
rev: Imperial Habsburg Double Headed Eagle

 

I just love Basel's coinage! Great coin and history. I'm curious how he erroneously was listed as Basel's founder...

 

Me too! Along with Zurich/ Bern/ Chur....

 

I don't fully understand how this error was made myself. Apparently the exact location of the Raurica colony Plancus founded was uncertain and one possible location was a hill in Basel with the remains of a Celtic settlement. Here is something from the Historisches Lexicon der Schweiz (Google Translate):

FR IT
Lucius Munatius Plancus

Version from: 01/21/2009
Author: Peter-Andrew Schwarz
87 BC Tibur (today Tivoli, Latium), after 15 BC. Disciple of Cicero, career under Caesar in the Gauls and civil wars, 44-43 governor in Gaul, 42 consul, 22 censor. The brilliant speaker was one of the leading senators of the late republic, he supported the amnesty of the murderers after the murder of Caesar. M. advised after 31 BC. the future Ks. Octavian and proposed the honorary name Augustus for him in the Senate. According to the inscription on his tomb mausoleum on Monte Orlando in Gaeta (Latium), he lived in 44 BC. the Raetians defeated in a battle, for which he was granted a triumphal procession through Rome. The inscription also indicates that M. in Gaul the colonies Lugudunum (Lyon) and Rauricafounded. This undoubtedly happened on behalf of Caesar in the years 44/43 BC. The location of the second foundation is controversial: the oldest traces of settlement in Augusta Raurica date from the Augustan period (15-10 BC). As a result, the (first) founding act could only be de iure or elsewhere, for example in the oppidum of the Celts. Rauriker on the Basel Minster Hill. In the 16th century M. was stylized as the city hero of Basel. The mistake that Basel was also founded by M. as a daughter town of the Augst colony persisted into the 20th century.

 

Here's another Basle coin for you Swiss fans

Switzerland BASEL 1/4 Taler n.d.(soon after 1700) The 8 shields on the reverse are the Vogteiwappen (arms of the 8 bailiwicks or districts, the city itself and what became its suburbs)

 

Koln/ Erzbistum
AV Goldgulden ND Bonn Mint
Friedrich III Von Saarewerden 1372-1414
Archbishop of Cologne

 

Not in @panzerman's league but a coin from Neuss, a city which has not yet appeared on this thread.

One of the main events in Neuss' history is the siege of the town in 1474-5 by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, that lasted for nearly a year. The citizens of Neuss withstood the siege and were therefore rewarded by the Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich III. The town was granted the right to mint its own coins and to carry the imperial coat of arms, the imperial eagle and the crown, in the town's own coat of arms (Wikipedia).

NEUSS Emperor Maximilian II 18 Heller 1572

 

Another coin from Bern/ really love the design. Personally, maybe the German Mint should study these, the so-called collector coins they are striking today, are God awfull!


AV Dukat 1697
Swiss Kantons/ Bern
Bern Mint

 

Here’s 20 lire from San Marino.

 

A few weeks ago I posted four fairly miserable coins of Goslar. To be fair, here is a better looking one

Germany Imperial City of GOSLAR 16 Gute Groschen (2/3 Taler) 1675