[Game] World Coins Time Machine… Counting Backward by Year! (Plus Prize Coin)

Here is my 1664 entry: a Guastalla Scudo of Ferrante III Gonzaga with on the reverse a statue of Ferrante I holding a spear, standing on a fallen satyr

 

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And this is my 1663 entry, although I may be cheating. It is an undated 1/2 cruzado of Joao IV of Portugal(1640-56). In 1663 Afonso VI countermarked the coins to increase their value from 200 reis (as seen on the obverse at right of the arms, although the 2 has been almost obliterated) to 250 reis (as seen in the upside down countermark on the reverse).

 

I am back in for a couple - we jumped past 1664 a bit quick so here are both my 1664 and 1663 Crowns:

 

Finally have a date to show
Brandenburg-Preussen
AV Dukat 1663-HM Konigsberg Mint
Friedrich Wilhelm Der Grosse Kurfurst

 

Riga under the rule of Karl XI, Solidus 1664 in silver

 

I guess we're at 1663 now, so:

1663 -- France 1/12 ecu:

 

I am NOT trying to jump ahead to 1661 but this miserable coin is a postscript to Kimotej's Karl XI Riga solidus. It is a forgery of his coin, struck in copper with a layer of tin to look (at least initially) like silver, dated 1661. As you may know, Eustratie Dabija, prince (or voivod) of Moldavia (1661-65), struck vast numbers of forged shillings, especially of Riga and Livonia under Sweden but also of Poland and Brandenburg, in his mint in Suceava. His forgeries completely undermined the value of the long respected Riga shillings or solidi.

 

Well we have had a few 1663 and no movement for a day, so here is my 1662 Crown. After this I am out for the next 36 years! Someone wake me up when we get to 1626...

 

Transylvania Michael Apafi (1661-90)
4 Taler 1662

 

That is a beautifull coin! Transylvania struck magnificent silver/ gold coinage. That Quadruple Taler is outstanding....congratulations!

 

1662 -- 1/12 ecu:

 

Lithuania.
Solid 1661.

 

I have missed out a little, so I am quickly sneaking in two schillings from 1663. Sorry about that!

Poor examples of both, I´m afraid!

Poland 1 Schilling (solidus) 1663 Johann Casimir


Livonia 1 Schilling (solidus) 1663 Karl XI

 

Siberian Man....not often we see a Lithuanian coin I have none from there

 

If we are still going when we get to the 1540s and 1530s I will have a few to post then!

 

I can go to 700AD/ have a lot of AV Arabian Empire/ Indian Sultanates coinage which are dated in AH calender

 

I know you do! I was referring more to the Lithuanian bit - they are the oldest I have with Western style dates on, and you said before you have none?

 

Me, I have a 1644 and a 1519, then I am done.

 

This thread should keep going at least until 1498.

 

1661 -- Spain, 8 maravedis: