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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1242771, member: 4910&quot;]I have had these two small dime-sized silver coins since the 1960&#039;s when</p><p>I rescued them from California coin dealers&#039; &quot;junk boxes&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_mysterycoin_hamburg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Mystery Coin Hamburg (17mm, 0.75gm)</p><p>This coin is worn pretty smooth and makes one wonder how long it was in circulation.</p><p>The reverse says &quot;Hamburg&quot; and I have a similar coin (below) dated 1763.</p><p>I could barely make out the reverse as having a possible date of 1720.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_mysterycoin_napoleon.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Mystery Coin European (18mm, 2.12gm)</p><p>I always thought that this one was French, but could not find a</p><p>French portrait to match.</p><p>The coin has a date of &quot;18xx&quot;.</p><p>The second letter of the upper right obverse legend looks like an &#039;A&#039;,</p><p>so the name could be Napoleon.</p><p>The line on the reverse appears to be post-mint damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best match I could find for the portrait was Hiermonymus Napoleon of</p><p>the German state of Westphalia who was Napoleon Bonaparte&#039;s younger brother.</p><p>That would make the date around 1808.</p><p><br /></p><p>The more recent Hamburg coin that I have:</p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_hamburg_sch1_1763.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Hamburg 1 Schilling 1763 (18mm 0.97gm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add:</p><p>Somebody pointed out on another site the similarity of the Napoleon coin</p><p>to a more common French coin.</p><p>The &#039;A&#039; at the top right of my coin might actually be the &#039;M&#039; of &quot;EMPEREUR&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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