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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 1835766, member: 42634&quot;]and so far my only 15th century coin.&nbsp; byzanticlause brought me this one for christmas!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_4341_zps7b7822ba.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_4341_zps7b7822ba.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_4341_zps7b7822ba.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>can&#039;t get a good obverse pic sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_4336_zps34ada3e0.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_4336_zps34ada3e0.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_4336_zps34ada3e0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>giovanni maria visconti (duke of milan)</p><p>duchy of milan</p><p>ar grosso</p><p>1402-1412</p><p><br /></p><p>o: st. ambrose</p><p><br /></p><p>r: biscione, a seal of the visconti. i thought this was a snake breathing fire, but it&#039;s a snake eating a man!&nbsp; neat!</p><p><br /></p><p>here&#039;s the seal in stone from the wikipedia page on milan..</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/IMG_3734_-_Milano_-_Stemma_visconteo-_sull%27Arcivescovado_-_Foto_di_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_-_15-jan-2007.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>interesting wikipedia article on st. ambrose, of interested to the ancient collectors considering his dealings with many of the roman emperors.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ambrose" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ambrose" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ambrose</a></p><p><br /></p><p>looks like his skull is still in milan at the basilica he built.</p><p><br /></p><p>please feel free to post any coins from milan, the 15th century...or anything else tangentially related.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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