European Sovereigns ~ Post Yours

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A Charles I angel pierced for use as a touchpiece. It used to be thought that the sovereign held the power to cure scrofula by laying his hand on sufferers, and these angels were used in the touching ceremony.

The last angels were struck in the period prior to Charles leaving London before raising his flag at the start of the Civil War. A total of 25000 pieces were struck across all marks. This example has the initial mark bell on the obverse with the reverse bell over portcullis over harp. The angel was valued at 10 shillings (denoted by the X). This coin was previously in the Brooker, Lockett and Carlyon-Britton cabinets.


An earlier angel is this Henry VII coin with the mintmark anchor. Struck on a small flan of good weight, this is a very good example of rusty dies with not a smooth area of field to be seen. It is also unusual in that the spear cross ends are a composite of the pommee and crosslet ends with a ball impaled on the cross end. Prior to this reverse die, all spears had round cross-ends. After this it was all crosslet ended spears with a small cross on each end. 5 known.

 

Vittorio Emmanuele III 1900-45
AV 20 Lire 1905-R

 

AV 2 Sovereigns 1887

 

Toscana/ Grand Duchy
AV Fiorini d'oro 1725
Firenze Mint
Giovanni Gastone di Medici
He would be the last of the di Medicis to be Grand Duke.

 

Another awesome specimen.
Your collection is amazing!. Thanks again for posting Panzerman.

 

Prussia
AV Friedrich's d'or 1777-A
Berlin Mint
Friedrich II "Der Grosse" König von Preussen

 

Alexander I 1919-34
Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1919-41
AV 4 Dukaten 1931
Belgrade Mint (Ear of wheat) countermark= Serbia
At the Treaty of Versailles in 1919/ the winners decided to really stick it to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by taking away 60 percent of its territory and creating Yugoslavia/ under Serbian domination/ Czechoslovakia/ Poland/ even some went to the Bolehevik's Regime under Lenin. Alexander and his wife/ Queen Sophia of Romania are portrayed on this spectacular 4 Dukat. Alexander was a ruthless ruler and was assasinated in 1934 in Paris. It, was a Serb assasin who provoked WW 1 by killing the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in 1914/ Sarejevo. Serbian govt., secret police may have been involved in that plot.

 

Newest addition ~2016 British Sovereign

 

James VI Scotland 1567-1625 I of England 1603-25
AV Unite ND Tower Mint/ Second Coinage/ "Tun" mm (1615/6)
James became King of Scotland at the age of One/ just after his Mom/ Maria I was beheaded on Elizabeth I orders. When the "Virgin Queen" died in 1603 with no heirs/ James VI House of Stuart would become King James I of England.
Just won this from Triton XXV

 

Incredible piece and history.
Thanks for posting.

 

Reinald IV Duke of Jülich/ Gülders 1503-25
AV Goldgulden ND
Jülich Mint
Herzogtum Jülich

 

Sachsen/ Electorate
AV Dukat 1792-IEC
Dresden Mint
Friedrich Augustus III "Der Starke"

 

Awesome as usual

 

Bayern/ Electorate
AV Dukat 1787 München Mint
Karl Theodor

 

That stinks.