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<p>[QUOTE="cyra, post: 899627, member: 25539"]My grandfather owned a vending machine company and got many old coins which I now have. Who puts a coin from 1600s Nuremberg into a vending machine in Baltimore? I have identified all the lot but this one. It has a sickly looking crowned double eagle. The letters, which look Greek to me although only several are visible, are interspersed with asterisks or some other five pointed symbol. (Looks too rounded to be a star.) The reverse has a cross formee or similar with another cross behind it and which might be a lion rampant on a small shield. </p><p><br /></p><p>I made a drawing. The picture is somewhat blurry but I think it is clear what I meant. The question marks obviously signify I couldn't make a reasonable guess as to what that character was. The actual coin appears at right.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2076/eaglecoin.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2076/eaglecoin.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2076/eaglecoin.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Any advice about where to go to to ID this coin would also be appreciated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cyra, post: 899627, member: 25539"]My grandfather owned a vending machine company and got many old coins which I now have. Who puts a coin from 1600s Nuremberg into a vending machine in Baltimore? I have identified all the lot but this one. It has a sickly looking crowned double eagle. The letters, which look Greek to me although only several are visible, are interspersed with asterisks or some other five pointed symbol. (Looks too rounded to be a star.) The reverse has a cross formee or similar with another cross behind it and which might be a lion rampant on a small shield. I made a drawing. The picture is somewhat blurry but I think it is clear what I meant. The question marks obviously signify I couldn't make a reasonable guess as to what that character was. The actual coin appears at right. [URL]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2076/eaglecoin.jpg[/URL] Any advice about where to go to to ID this coin would also be appreciated.[/QUOTE]
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