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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 191858, member: 39&quot;]C = Breslau? Ummm ...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; There once was a mint in Breslau (today Wroclaw) but that closed in the early 19th century (1820 or so) and used the mintmark B.</p><p><br /></p><p>May well be that C was (also) used by the Clausthal mint. But when that German Empire was founded in 1871, neither Breslau nor Clausthal were among the mints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a list of mints that were &quot;active&quot; in those years (the places in bold make the current German coins). The list is from the Baden-Württemberg state mint:</p><p><a href="http://www.staatlichemuenzenbw.de/CMS/index.php?lang=de&amp;swf=1&amp;pid=s2&amp;dmy=1170637218" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.staatlichemuenzenbw.de/CMS/index.php?lang=de&amp;swf=1&amp;pid=s2&amp;dmy=1170637218" rel="nofollow">http://www.staatlichemuenzenbw.de/CMS/index.php?lang=de&amp;swf=1&amp;pid=s2&amp;dmy=1170637218</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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