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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DEA, post: 3099298, member: 90140&quot;]Someone other than I is going to have to make a call on this one.&nbsp; I see 16(Z)3 on the obverse of this two kreuzer (albus) - KM 653.1.&nbsp; The <b>problem </b>is that the Krause-Mishler catalogs do not catalog a 1623 - they start at 16Z5 [1625].&nbsp; Everything on this coin points to KM 653.1 - obverse with the imperial orb dividing the date with the legend of MEINTZ HAS NAS FRANC; reverse with shield showing the arms of each of the four - Mainz, Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau-Saarbrücken and Frankfurt [am Main].&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Opinions and advice please.&nbsp; Fake?&nbsp; Simply uncatalogued? Unique?&nbsp; Or is my eyesight so bad that I don&#039;t see that is it obviously not 16Z3?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, KM tells us that Mainz joined a union with the aforementioned sovereignties to strike some minor coins during the Thirty Years&#039; War but cheated, bringing an end to this monetary union in 1636.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]784134[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784135[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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