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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3035861, member: 82322&quot;]I am also a fan of big, crude, early dollars.&nbsp; (Although I only have one.)&nbsp; Mine is not so old as yours!&nbsp; Just 100 years after the fall of the Byzantines and the coinage is starting to become modern.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dealer who sold this to me said Lion Daalders are now in &quot;The Red Book&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]757154[/ATTACH] </p><p>Netherlands, West Friesland, 1604 .750 silver Lion Daalder (Leeuwendaalder), 41mm, 26.7g</p><p>Obv: Mo[neta] No[va] Or[dinis] Wes[t] Fri[siae] [ad] Valor[em] Hol[landiae] (&quot;new coin struck at the order of West Friesland to the Holland standard&quot;); Soldier standing left, head right, holding crowned coat-of-arms</p><p>Rev: Deus Fortitudo et Spes Nostra (&quot;God is our strength and hope&quot;); Lion rampant left.</p><p>Refs: J. S. Davenport, <i>European Crowns and Talers 1484-1968</i>, #4868, Delmonte 835[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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