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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4800042, member: 10461&quot;]Another admittedly non-ancient piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>CONSIDERA : NOVISS · ET · IN · ÆTERNVM · NON · PECCABIS.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Consider (anew?) and (eternally?) (your insecurity?)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Even with Google&#039;s help, I&#039;m still befuddled.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here&#039;s the piece in question; one of two identical 17th century German <i>rechenpgennige</i> I recently picked up, charmed by the wonderfully morbid motif on them.</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Germany (Harz, Zellerfeld): copper rechenpfennig by mintmaster Henning Schlüter, ca. 1625-1672</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/3tiGHd35Tfiwp3fQDuN2_Zellerfeld1-gradient.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse:</b> HENNING · SCHLU&nbsp; TER · F · B · L · M · M · Z · Z :, coat of arms.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse:</b> CONSIDERA : NOVISS · ET · IN · ÆTERNVM · NON · PECCABIS ·, skull, facing slightly right, with hourglass above; crossed scythe and spade behind; worms to right and left and through the eye sockets.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Neumann-31695.&nbsp; Copper.&nbsp; Struck by mintmaster <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Schl%C3%BCter_(M%C3%BCnzmeister)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Schl%C3%BCter_(M%C3%BCnzmeister)" rel="nofollow">Henning Schlüter</a> in the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausthal-Zellerfeld" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausthal-Zellerfeld" rel="nofollow">Clausthal-Zellerfeld</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harz" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harz" rel="nofollow">Harz</a>.&nbsp; Undated; circa 1625-1672.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex-Münzenhandlung Raffler, Schwabmünchen, Germany, 30 June 2020.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Here&#039;s the other, which appears to have possibly been silvered centuries ago.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1165693[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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