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

Noah - What have you done with all the two-by-two animals ???

 

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Firstly, here are Moldavian copper shillings (originally with tin coating), forgeries of the coins of Queen Christina of Sweden posted by Kimotej and semibovinian:

MOLDAVIA Eustratie Dabija Forgery of Livonia Solidus dated 1652



MOLDAVIA Eustratie Dabija Forgery of Riga Solidus dated 1653

 

And here are my entries for 1652 and 1651

SPAIN BARCELONA Siege 10 Reales 1652 (struck by French forces occupying Barcelona when besieged by Spanish army led by Don Juan of Austria)
PAPAL STATES - AVIGNON Innocent X Scudo 1651

 

Great history behind those coins!

 

1650 -- Denmark, 2 skilling:

 

Louis XIV, 1/12 écu, 1649-A, Paris mint. This is (and probably will be) my only Louis XIV coin. It was purchased on a trip to Paris, and I think it was one of my best purchases in terms of price. I absolutely love it, and I don’t even want another coin of his entire reign!

 

1649 -- Austria, 3 kreuzer:

 

Wow, that's nice! & exactly 300 yrs before I was born!! & I'm not just whistling Dixie like he apparently is!!

 

1650 Bishopric of MUNSTER Sede Vacante Taler





1649 MILAN 1/2 Filippo del Caracena Struck by the Governor of Milan, the marchese of Caracena, to celebrate the visit of Maria Anna of Austria, on her way from Vienna to her wedding with Philip IV in Madrid. The princess made her solemn entrance to Milan on 17 June 1649.

 

Livonia.
Solid 1648.

 

1648 -- Denmark, 2 skilling:

 

Does anyone know what the mintmark at the top of the reverse of semibovinian's Danish 2 skilling, on the right of 1648, is called in English ? In German it is Zainhaken and I believe it is a mint tool. I have never found the correct English translation.

 

Suddenly here I am with a 1648 Livonia solidus.

 

I'm not sure there is an equivalent tool in English mints. I looked up via google and discovered the "Zaine" is the red hot rod of metal produced in the mint on the way to making coins, and the "Haken" is for hook. I do not know of a specific English word for the Zaine - the general word for pieces of metal in a process is "billet" so I would suggest "billet-hook" is probably the closest you will get. I suppose "ingot-hook" is possible but sounds ungainly. There is the word "billhook" which is a curve-bladed hand axe used for trimming wood.

 

It is not Livonia, Sir. It is Riga

 

Nurnberg.
1 kreuzer 1647.

 

OK, thanks. The person I bought it from identified it as Livonia.

 

1647 -- France, 1/12 ecu:

 

Thank you. Billet hook sounds good. However, I then went to see if I could find the term in a little book I have on minting, Coins and Mining by Denis Cooper, and I may have found the answer to my own question - see pictures below. I don't know why I had not noticed them before. I am still confused. How exactly did one strike coins with a hinged coin die ? Also, the second picture shows a similar tool on the left used for cutting blanks.

 

Although Riga issued its own city coinage, it was the largest city in Livonia (roughly today's Latvia and Estonia) so he was not really wrong