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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8051782, member: 128351&quot;]I can read</p><p>SES:KAROL:MA G:IPERATO&#039;, thus I suppose it is Charlemagne facing holding a model cathedral and a globus cruciger, above a coat of arms (an eagle) which used to be the emblem of the Roman Empire, became the emblem of Charlemagne (as emperor of Occident), then the emblem of the Holy Roman Empire, and is now the emblem of the Federal Republic of Germany.</p><p>+MONETA:VRB&#039;.AQVS&#039; and + ANNO<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />OMINI:MILESIMO:CCCC:XIX : Coin of the city of Aachen (Aix la Chapelle), in the year of the Lord 1419.</p><p><br /></p><p>(edit : I typed : followed by D, w/o space, and I got that green smiley!)</p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing I do not understand is SES... If it was SCS it would be Sanctus, saint (Charlemagne is a saint, after all...), but the E seems very clear...</p><p><br /></p><p>=&gt; city-coin of Aachen, 1419.</p><p>OK?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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