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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 649059, member: 4703&quot;]The Legend, FRANC.D.G.R.I.S.A.GER.IER.REX. says &quot;Francis, By the Grace of God (D. G.) Emperor of the Romans ever August (Romanorum Imperator Semper August or R.I.S.A.) and King of Germany and Jerusalem (GER. IER.REX)&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>TU DOMINE SPES MEA means&nbsp; &quot;Thou Lord are my hope&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It could be (or purport to be) a thaler from one of the German States, but I don&#039;t have the patience to compare your picture with the hundreds spread over more than 300 pages of the Standard Catalog of World Coins 18th Century volume.&nbsp;&nbsp; You might visit your local public library and go through their copy (or the one they can get temporarily through an inter-library loan) looking at all the pictures which are the same size as your coin, since the photos are life-size.</p><p><br /></p><p>I strongly suspect that JJK78 and Hobo are right about your specimen being a cast fake.&nbsp; 18th Century German coins are universally milled, not cast, and yours has the unmistakable look of a (poorly) cast piece.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Separate issue</b> If you continue titling every thread you post with just your name, a lot of people will just assume they&#039;ve already read the thread and skip over it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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