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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2791872, member: 42634&quot;]that&#039;s pretty cool, i didn&#039;t know about this chick. </p><p><br /></p><p>did you catch the swedish coins pdf bob posted in alde thread?</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/looking-for-a-decent-reference-for-15th-and-16th-century-coins.299420/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/looking-for-a-decent-reference-for-15th-and-16th-century-coins.299420/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/looking-for-a-decent-reference-for-15th-and-16th-century-coins.299420/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>i don&#039;t have any swedish coins that are quite that old, but here is a jeton from the franco-spanish war you mentioned.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/s-l1600_zpswhymufs0.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/s-l1600_zpswhymufs0.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/s-l1600_zpswhymufs0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6">Jeton of Philip IV, 1657</font></p><p><br /></p><p>O: Philip IV, VALENCIANAM LIBERASTI CONDATUMQUE / RECUPERASTI; R:Valenciennes , MICARULOSO DEO / HOSTEM FUGASTI. Struck in Antwerp Celebrating the Spanish victory at Valenciennes in the Franco-Spanish War. 32 mm, 5.8 g.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>i personally divide my collection between medieval and modern at about 1500.&nbsp; my jeton seem pretty &quot;early modern&quot; to me, i believe it was milled like a modern coin.&nbsp; i think OP coin looks more like a medieval coin, even though they were minted about the same time.&nbsp; it seems more similar to the hammered coins that had been produced for hundreds of years before it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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