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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 15430, member: 669&quot;]German States KM#154, a 32 schilling (=2/3 thaler or 1 gulden) silver coin of the Free City of Lubeck, now part of Germany.&nbsp; There should be another &quot;32&quot; above the &quot;Schilling&quot; on the reverse, which can&#039;t be seen in the picture, and may be totally worn off.&nbsp; I would grade the picture as only G, but if the 32 can be discerned on the actual coin, I would go VG, which is listed as $20, the lowest grade valued in the 18th Century Krause, 3rd Ed.&nbsp; The design was minted in 1731-32 as well as 1738, but Krause gives no mintage figures.&nbsp; The weight and fineness are also unspecified, but it is probably in the 25-27g range.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend translates as &quot;New Money of the Imperial City of Lubeck&quot;.&nbsp; Originally the initials &quot;JJJ&quot; for mintmaster Johann Justus Jaster appeared somewhere on the coin.&nbsp; Lubeck was a free city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (hence the two-headed eagle device).&nbsp; It had an Imperial mint as early as 1188, but only began issuing civic coinage about 1350.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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