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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2068320, member: 39&quot;]The text says <i>I PFENN: SCHEIDE. MÜNTZ.</i> - the I is a Roman 1, PFENN: is short for Pfennig, and &quot;Scheide Müntz&quot; (today&#039;s spelling &quot;Scheidemünze&quot;) means a coin with a face value that is higher than the intrinsic value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other side shows a &quot;Wild Man&quot; which indicates the coin is from Braunschweig-Lüneburg, or Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel maybe. Here are two Wikipedia articles about those Wild Men (who usually refer to the Harz mountains). The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_man#Early_modern_and_modern_depictions" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_man#Early_modern_and_modern_depictions" rel="nofollow">first one</a> is in English; the <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilder_Mann#M.C3.BCnzen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilder_Mann#M.C3.BCnzen" rel="nofollow">second one</a> is in German but has some more images.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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