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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25371143, member: 10461&quot;]More, from the “used to be mine” archives:</p><p><br /></p><p>Medieval Croatia (Ragusa): silver grosso portraying St. Blasius and Christ, ca. 1372-1438 (Saint Blasius looks like a hippie Tommy Chong type, flashing the Peace sign, LOL)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1623869[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>France (Metz, Free Imperial City): silver gros, civic issue, ca. 1406-1588; featuring Saint Stephen (note the spidery Hand of God blessing him over his face)</p><p><b><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/france-metz-free-imperial-city-silver-gros-civic-issue-ca-1400s-1552.361600/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/france-metz-free-imperial-city-silver-gros-civic-issue-ca-1400s-1552.361600/"><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/hAahYAS7QPCVYzitiWgP_Metz-800x400-gradient.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Netherlands (Gelderland): &quot;St. John&quot; goldgulden (florin) of Arnold van Egmond, ca. 1423-1472; featuring St. John the Baptist</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1623870[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Switzerland (Basel): gold guilder (goldgulden) of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, ca. 1452-1478; featuring the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1623871[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Papal States: silver testone of Pope Paul IV, ca. 1555-1559; featuring Saint Peter</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1623881[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Austria (Salzburg) silver 3-kreuzer, 1681; Saint Rupert in bishop&#039;s miter with crozier</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1623882[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously, the 15th through 17th centuries in Europe were something of a heyday for saints on coins.&nbsp; I’ll bet [USER=73385]@tibor[/USER] has a number of interesting earlier-dated examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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