Germany coin thread (only the best)

I picked this tin medal up a few months ago. It is a German "box thaler" (schraubtaler) from 1817 celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, with various inserts depicting Martin Luther and various Reformation events. Enjoy!

 

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And that someone in the last two hundred years didn't purloin or damage the insert - simply incredible. Very lovely piece with the colourful insert.

 

Very interesting and attractive, agreed. Those pages with the "mini paintings", are they printed on paper or some other material?

Christian

 

Yes, they are printed on disks of paper glued back-to-back with a ribbon connector.

 

Thanks! Very nicely done - and cool that, as mentioned before, this "survived" all these years.

Christian

 

An old gold coin from the German Kaiserreich, 10 Mark Friedrich of Prussia.
Nice condition, even for this type.

 

And here is a condition rarity of the good old Heiermann, which type I like especially.

 

Baden Griffin coin

 

Baden without Griffin

 

found my 1863 Baden 1/2 Kreuzer...

 

that's a beauty.

 

more from Baden...




and 2 that need an acetone bath...


and this 1 too...

 

Here are some coppers I just bought recently.

1746 Cologne, 1/4 Stuber


Nassau, 1819 1/4 Kreuzer


Prussia, 1870A 3 Pfennig


Saxony, 1864 2 Pfennig


Schaumberg-Lippe 1858, 4 Pfennig

 

And some silver


Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, 1764 1/12 Thaler


Hildsheim, 1699, 1/24 Thaler

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1789 Schilling

 

The second silver coin is from Hildesheim (the city; there are also diocese coins). The woman at the top of the CoA is Hildesia, supposedly a "blue eyed virgin with golden hair".

Christian

 

Yes, I realized as I was driving to work that I had mistyped it and I just edited it. That's what you get for trying to do things before the first cup of coffee.

 

Photos are bad, coin is hard to find.

 

I was going through a load of junk German coins last night. It included a complete set of that type (6 coins) and I cataloged them all as VF because they looked pretty bad. That is not the best picture you have but all my coins looked better than yours, which is XF details. I think I need to go back and look at them again

 

I've picked up a few German coins over the years.

 

2 Thaler from Baden, graded as UNC cleaned ,