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

If, i had to make a list of the most beautifull coinage in history/ Regensburg would place in top ten/ along with Basel/ Nurnberg/ Salzburg/ Transylvania/ Hungary/ Bohemia/ Zurich/ Holy Roman Empire/ Danzig.....
I have a ND AV Regensburg Dukat (1770)

 

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Anyone have a 1525?

 

1519

 

Unfortunately, I’m out unless something happens to be added to my collection.

 

I have 1520 Sulieman I AV Sultani

 

Here are three for 1525

Germany MECKLENBURG Albrecht VII The Handsome (1503-47) 2 Schilling 1525 with Mecklenburg bull's head countermark (1526)

There is an interesting story behind this countermark. On 20 June 1523 Albrecht VII made an agreement, confirmed on 21 Jan.1524, with Stendhal mm Martin Fuege to produce 4000 Fl. of silver coins per month. Fuege did not fulfill the contract and around 1526 went to the Mecklenburg mint in Wittenberg and struck underweight false 2 Schilling,Dreiling and 1/4 Gulden. Forced to honour these coins, on 13 Dec. 1526 Albrecht decreed that good 2 Schillings should be countermarked with a bull's head and all others should be forbidden. The Gustrow mintmaster, Moritz Schacht, was implicated in the affair and forced to pay Fl. 32,000 for the costs of redeeming the false coins,



Germany SCHWARZBURG Heinrich XXXI (1493-1526) Guldengroschen 1525 with St. Martin handing down part of his cloak to the beggar on the reverse

 

And lastly one for @tibor

HUNGARY Lajos (Ludwig) II (1516-26) 1 1/4 Taler 1525

 

Beautifull Lajos II 1 1/4 Taler Talerman. Poor guy would end up dead on the Battlefield at Mohacs a year later.

 

@talerman That is truly a wonderful piece. I have never
seen any multiple talers from Hungary. Any idea who the
mintmaster was? I can't find it in Huszar. Thanks for
posting it!!

 

Multiple Talers of Hungary are indeed rare. This coin is not in Huszar but it is in Davenport Large Size Silver Coins of the World, Dav.-LS 557, and in Corpus Nummorum Hungariae, CNH 302, where it is described as a pattern. Davenport lists a 1 1/4 Taler of c. 38 g (my coin is 38.1 g and 53 mm) and a 1 1/2 Taler of c. 44g, but says there is considerable latitude in the weights. CNH gives weights of 35.1, 39.6, 45.51 and 65.32 g. CNH also lists 2 other silver patterns. The first (CNH 303) has a laureled bust of the king on the obverse and an array of shields like my coin on the reverse. Apparently, there are varieties with weights of 33.6 g, 45.93 g and 51.4 g. The second (CNH 304) has a crowned bust on the obverse and one shield with multi-field arms on the reverse and is known with weights of 15.10 g and 53.4 g. Apparently all these coins are in the collection of the Hungarian National Museum.

The inner legend around the horse on the obverse of my coin reads *KREMNICZ*BERNHART*BECHEM*. Austrian die cutter Bernhardt Bechem was Chief Master of the Mints in Austria and Tyrol after the death of his father in 1511. I don't know when and for how long he was active in Kremnitz. He died in 1547.

 

@talerman Thank you so much for the extensive write-up. I happen to
have the Davenport book, 3rd ed. I just never noticed or do not remember
the coin. I bought the book because I would like to collect multiple thalers.
I will have to buy a copy of the CNH. I didn't know of its availability. Your
library must have several hundred volumes. Thank you again for all of the
hard work and for sharing the information. Tibor

 

It's a pleasure. Thank you for your interest. Just a partial return for all the interesting coins you have posted, especially the dated 15th century ones.

 

1524

Germany BRANDENBURG Joachim I alone (1513-35) 1/4 Taler 1524 ( I know the 4 looks more like an 8 but apparently that's the way they wrote a 4 sometimes in that period, a kind of loop)

 

Nice coin! as usual Talerman

 

If I stamp a USA zinc cent with "1523" can I get back in? I've only been out for two hundred years or so...

 

I am back in with 1520, hopefully someone has a 23/22/21

 

I am still sitting here with my little 1519...hopefully I will remember to post it at the right time.

 

I have 1522 ready to go. ~Although may also have a 1523, not sure- will check to see

 

I am sitting in Frankfurt Airport waiting for flight back to the United States. Will post a 1523 when I get home.

GORGEOUS weather in Europe this week. Global warming or just an early spring ?