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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8051088, member: 128351&quot;]When I said collecting Swiss coins must be a boring hobby, I meant Swiss contemporary coins, from the late 19th c. until now. Of course. This Zurich taler was minted in 1512, it is representative of one of the most fascinating period in European arts, the Renaissance. There is the well-known Italian Renaissance with all these artists named after teenage mutant ninja turtles, of course, but there is also a Northern Renaissance, Flemish and German, illustrated by geniuses like Albrecht Dürer or Hieronymus Bosch (a direct precursor of surrealism). The spirit of the time influenced architecture (Chambord castle for ex. but also all that flamboyant Gothic style), and minor arts such as coin production. A collection of European coins of the late 1400s and the early 1500s must be a real splendour. In what other period would they create coats of arms representing giant turnips like this one for the bishop of Salzburg? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1394220[/ATTACH] </p><p>(not my coin of course)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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