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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4305303, member: 110350&quot;]Although I&#039;ve never set out intentionally to collect German coins, I do have a few silver thalers from the 17th and 18th centuries:</p><p><br /></p><p>Saxe-Altenburg, AR Broad Thaler 1624, Four Dukes (the sons of Friedrich Wilhelm I). Obv. Johann Philipp /Rev. his three brothers, Friedrich, Johann Wilhelm, &amp; Friedrich Wilhelm II.&nbsp; Davenport 7371.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095411[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095412[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Saxony (Albertine Line), AR Broad Thaler 1626, Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony. Davenport 7601.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095413[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095414[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Regensburg [Ratisbon] (then a Free Imperial City), AR City View Thaler 1754. Obv. Francis I (Holy Roman Emperor) / Rev. View of Regensburg. Davenport 2618.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1095417[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095418[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Nuremberg (then a free Imperial City), AR City View Thaler 1779. Obv. City View of Nuremberg / Rev. Double-Headed Imperial Eagle (Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor). Davenport 2495.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095420[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095421[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also have a couple of Reichsthalers from Brandenburg-Prussia, which I find of particular interest given the fact that my mother and maternal grandfather were born in Berlin, and my ancestors in that branch of my family lived in various provinces belonging to Prussia from no later than 1671 (when one of my 8th-great-grandfathers was the head of one of the 50 Jewish families invited by the Great Elector to settle in Brandenburg-Prussia after the Jews were expelled from Vienna in 1670) until May 27, 1941.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prussia, AR Reichsthaler 1786A, Berlin.&nbsp; Obv. Bust of Friedrich II (der Große) right / Rev. Prussian eagle.&nbsp; KM 332.1</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095427[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095428[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[one more in next post][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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