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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 351664, member: 6370&quot;]It is a Nuremberg rechenpfennig (reckoning penny / counting token). Made by one Johann Jakob Lauer (I.L.) (1806-1865) who was a member of a family of counter makers that include Ernest Ludwig Sigmund Lauer (1783-1833) and Ludwig Christian Lauer (1842-1873). They seem to have produced quite a few counters including a series of counters with Roman and Greek themes and this seems to be one of them. Although I could not find this example, I found several other examples:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/cache/jeton1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>one with venus to sell at roughly 35.00 USD</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/cache/jeton2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>one with alexander the great</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The style on these examples are just like the style of the one posted above so I think its safe to say it was produced by the same person.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think his tokens are listed in <b>Michael Mitchiner&#039;s</b> work on <b>Jetons, Medalets &amp; Tokens Vol 1 The Medieval Pd. &amp; Nuremberg.</b> A book I do not have. If there is someone who has this, they can look it up and find any other info there might be regarding this maker and his counters.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yours seems to be in UNBELIEVABLY great shape. I doubt a brass one would last in the ground for any amount of time and come out it such good shape. Diminsions of the counter and weight might help to determine what its made of, if I am not mistaken it should be brass or copper, maybe gilt, doubt it would be gold.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Something interesting I found about this family of counter makers (who also made toy coins):</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>&#039;As the use of these tokens diminished so did the makers. In 1783 there were still 12 masters making computing Pfennigs. In 1830 there were 7. In 1843 it was only one. By lack of sales Ludwig Christian Lauer, the last yielding was forced to stop production and died in 1873.&#039;</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>so it seems that his son? was the last if not one of the last producers of these counters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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