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Here is my Fiorini di camera ND Rome Mint struck circa 1494
Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) 1492-1503

 

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Here's my latest. James I Shilling 1607-09

 

Won yesterday from Varesi. Scudo of Alessandro de' Medici with dies engraved by Benvenuto Cellini. Notice the delightful cherubim. This is the fifth coin of Cellini's that I've acquired and also will be the last since the other three coins described in his autobiography are of the utmost rarity and to the best of my knowledge only found in museum collections. Expect a full write-up soon(ish).

 

Also added another couple of Krauwinckel jetons. Will perhaps do a write-up of these too.

Volcanus and Cyparissus:



Joab and Amasa, and David and Jonathan:

 

My first coin with dies engraved by Leone Leoni, who along with Cellini and Francesco Francia was probably the most important Renaissance artist to mint coins. There's an interesting article on the type from Numismatic Crippa.


Italian States: Milan. Philip II (1556-98), AR Denaro da 20 Soldi, undated. Bust left, Rev. Crowned arms, weight 4.8g (Crippa 34).

 

Beautifull Milan Philip II coin....

Here is an ealy dated 1516 from Germany.

AV Goldgulden 1516 Schwabach Mint
Brandenburg-Franconia
Margraves Georg Der Fromme/ Casimir Von Kulmbach
acquired from VL Nummis

 

Another....
AV Ducato ND Valencia Mint FDC
Fernando II of Aragon 1495-1525

 

a few new and not-so-new acquisitions:


Julius II (1503-1513) Julius sd, Bologna. D / Bust of the Pope R / San Petronio seated supports the city and pastoral care. Munt. 95 MIR 584/2 Ag g 3.88 Very rare • VF Old Collection tone. D/ IVLIVS • II • PONTIFEX • MAXIMVS • Busto del pontefice con piviale a d. R/ S • P • BONON-IA • DOCET • San Petronio in trono; in basso, l’armetta del Cardinale Legato Giovanni de’ Medici Annotazioni d’epoca: [Enrico] Dotti, 1934 BiBlioGrafia: cfr. CNI X, p. 65 n. 73 BiBlioGrafia di Confronto: Chimienti 2009, p. 195 n. 244 Dies attributed to Francesco Francia.



Papal States, Rome. Giulio III (Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte), 1550-1555. Year II 1551-2. Giulio. Ar Obv. IVLIVS·III - ·P·M·Anno·III Bust with tonsure and embroidered cope to l.; II below. Rev. OMNIA·TVTA· - ·VIDES / ROMA "He sees everything." Virgil’s Aeneid 1:583 Roma as a legionary in armor seated left on the seven hills, holding a laurel wreath; below l., mint master sign A‡C of Bartolomeo Canobio and, to r., ROMA. CNI XV p.430 n.55; Muntoni 16; Berm. 992. Dies attributed to Alessandro Cesati


Federico II Gonzaga, 1519-1540. Anonymous quattrino attributed to Federico II. Æ gr. 1,85 Laureate head of Virgilio L. Rv. EPO over flower Bignotti 2; MIR 405.


Duchy of Milan. Bona di Savoia regent with Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza, 1476-1481 Testone, ND, AG 9.60 g. Ref : MIR 218/1 (R3), Cr. 2/A. Obv: (head of St. Ambrose) BONA·7·IO·GZ·M·DVCES·MELI·VI· Veiled bust of Bona to right. Rev: (head of St. Ambrose) SOLA·FACTA·SOLVM·DEVM·SEQVOR Phoenix, with spread wings, standing left amidst flames. From the collection of a "Gentleman of the Royal House [of Savoy]," ex. Gadoury November 2018

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bo...-woman-on-an-italian-renaissance-coin.363352/

Anyone else have anything new to share?

 

Those are beauties! Thanks for posting them!
John

 

Kingdom of Hungary
AV Goldgulden 1531 K-B Kremnitz Mint
Ferdinand I

 

I just won this in an eBay auction and am expecting it in the mail tomorrow. An Austrian coin minted in present day Alsace-Lorraine. I didn’t realise that Hapsburg rule extended that far west.

 

Nice example! The Habsburgs even ruled in Flanders under Maximilian I/ after he was married to a Burgundian Princess.

 

An insignificant little coin but a famous diecutter

PAPAL STATES Clement VII 1/2 Giulio (Grosso) n.d. (1523-34)

Struck from dies engraved by Benvenuto Cellini. Clement VII was Giulio de' Medici.

 

To be completely honest, I've always been a little skeptical of this attribution. Berman mentions it and I've seen it in occasional auction listings, but I'm a bit at a loss as to where it comes from. Old scholars interpreted the bear claw mint mark as belonging to Cellini--and so any coin bearing it was attributed to Cellini--but it has since been shown that this was actually the die mark of the head of the mint Giacomo Balducci. Given that Cellini doesn't mention working on it in his autobiography, and that there isn't anything stylistically particular about it to point to his hand, the attribution does not hold much weight (IMO).

That being said it's a perfectly lovely coin and a nice example of the type. I've always likes the quadrapart ROMA, and I think any coin connected to Clement VII is interesting given the tumult of his reign.

 

Ycon, thank you for your comment. I have to admit I took the Cellini attribution from Berman without thinking about it. When I looked at the coin again when I posted it yesterday, it struck me as not worthy of Cellini. I think you have now given me a simple explanation; the dies were probably not struck by Cellini.
Where is the bear claw mm ?

 

at 12 o'clock on the reverse, above the cross. They're slightly off-flan on your coin. These coins were clearly struck at the mint around the same time when Cellini worked there, so I still think it's possible he stuck them but as I said, I don't think there's much positive evidence in favor of it.

 

This is an absolutely beautiful coin, it looks almost Roman. Very nice.

 

It was my dream coin for so long I still can't quite believe that I own one

Here's my write up: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-best-money-in-christendom.318847/

 

Nice one, congrats! I love these Talers.

Those without date and younger features were struck from 1576 to 1595, the year of Ferdinand’s death. Afterwards, like yours, are posthumous; they were struck with older features.
On the reverse, the two carps in ex. is the mintmark for Ensisheim. In medieval times, monks raised carp in the small valley ponds and carpe frite (fried carp) remains a regional specialty around Ensisheim.

 

I don't see the two carps. Are they the two things hanging down between AL and SA at the bottom ? I thought they were part of the Order chain.