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<p>[QUOTE="talerman, post: 3103928, member: 89314"]I am also still a relative beginner at navigating Coin Talk. Thank you, GDJMSP, for setting this up.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the Augsburg coin, I agree with Oldhoopster and Eduard. The only 1760 10 Kreuzer has the value expressed as a Latin X. In addition to their books, I have an 1897 catalogue of City of Augsburg coins by Forster & Schmid. They also only list your type. They mention that the mintmaster position remained in the Holeisen (or Hohleisen) family for a long time and that they all used 2 horseshoes as their mintmark except between 1761-66 when one horseshoe was used. This would have been when Franz Hohleisen was mintmaster. They do not have the name of the mintmaster who succeeded Johann Christoph but the 2 horseshoes on your coin suggest it was another Holeisen. The T is the initial of the diecutter, Jonas Peter Thiebaud.</p><p><br /></p><p>Beautiful coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="talerman, post: 3103928, member: 89314"]I am also still a relative beginner at navigating Coin Talk. Thank you, GDJMSP, for setting this up. On the Augsburg coin, I agree with Oldhoopster and Eduard. The only 1760 10 Kreuzer has the value expressed as a Latin X. In addition to their books, I have an 1897 catalogue of City of Augsburg coins by Forster & Schmid. They also only list your type. They mention that the mintmaster position remained in the Holeisen (or Hohleisen) family for a long time and that they all used 2 horseshoes as their mintmark except between 1761-66 when one horseshoe was used. This would have been when Franz Hohleisen was mintmaster. They do not have the name of the mintmaster who succeeded Johann Christoph but the 2 horseshoes on your coin suggest it was another Holeisen. The T is the initial of the diecutter, Jonas Peter Thiebaud. Beautiful coin.[/QUOTE]
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