I have had these two small dime-sized silver coins since the 1960's when I rescued them from California coin dealers' "junk boxes". Mystery Coin Hamburg (17mm, 0.75gm) This coin is worn pretty smooth and makes one wonder how long it was in circulation. The reverse says "Hamburg" and I have a similar coin (below) dated 1763. I could barely make out the reverse as having a possible date of 1720. Mystery Coin European (18mm, 2.12gm) I always thought that this one was French, but could not find a French portrait to match. The coin has a date of "18xx". The second letter of the upper right obverse legend looks like an 'A', so the name could be Napoleon. The line on the reverse appears to be post-mint damage. The best match I could find for the portrait was Hiermonymus Napoleon of the German state of Westphalia who was Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother. That would make the date around 1808. The more recent Hamburg coin that I have: Hamburg 1 Schilling 1763 (18mm 0.97gm) Edited to add: Somebody pointed out on another site the similarity of the Napoleon coin to a more common French coin. The 'A' at the top right of my coin might actually be the 'M' of "EMPEREUR".
