World silver crown-size type coin collectors?

Germany City of JEVER Maria Gemeintaler 1572

This coin was called a Gemeintaler or Gemeinschafts (community) Taler because, although struck in Jever, it was accepted both in Jever and the duchy of Oldenburg, with the arms of both on rev.

 

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I have at least one of each of those. Those are great coins, all considered "moderns" compared to these terrific talers these guys are showing. I don't have any talers or anything even close to their age, except some Russian wire money, but they are really small by comparison.

 

1773 8 reales Mexico

 

1694 Regensburg taler , Leopold I
Ex Heritage , Solidus, Spink, poor coin finally found a home

 

Does any member know who runs this page:

http://worldcrowns.blogspot.com/

He has a lot of crown sized coins, is he a member on CT? I thought he was.

 

No clue who runs it, but that's one of my favorite sites for crown porn.

 

Germany JULICH-BERG Johann Wilhelm II Taler 1682

This was struck in Mulheim. If I remember correctly, @panzerman's home town is not so far away.

 

1618 Hall taler

 

Paul Tudor, you have some very remarkable and admirable coins! Thanks for showing them to us.

 

Thank you, I admire your coins too!The reality is that my collection, if i can call it so is below average in the world of talers/crowns, considering what awesome large coins some of the cointalk members have, like wcg with his Sede Vacante collection, Zohar with his top pop talers and then talerman with a ton of really rare ones!Without even going back through theses pages i'm pretty sure that talerman has the first talers of Erfurt, Nurnberg and Frankfurt, which is simply next level in terms of history and value!

 

That makes me feel like posting another of my newer, big silver coins. 1954 Belgium 100 francs.

 

One of the great things about numismatics is that it can be enjoyed over a huge range of countries, topics, time periods and budgets. Although my particular interest is early modern Europe, 1500-1700, I enjoy almost all the coins posted on the CT threads I follow.. I marvel at panzerman's spectacular gold collection but I also like copper minors and I enjoy looking at the designs of the 20th century coins.

Anyway, keeping the ball rolling, here is another Jülich-Berg Taler

Germany JULICH-CLEVE-BERG Wilhelm V The Rich Taler 1578

Fun fact: William's sister Anne of Cleves was, for six months, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England. The marriage was arranged for diplomatic reasons with Henry never having seen her, only a painting. Apparently she did not come up to the expectations of the picture and Henry referred to her as the Flanders mare. After 6 months she wisely agreed to an annulment and a generous settlement on the grounds that the marriage had not been consummated. In the end she outlived all Henry's other five wives.

 

Though i'm 99% into world crowns, it's imposible not to admire panzerman's gold collection, in fact it's the reason why i'm considering buying a few gold coins and i have a small list already, including a dutch ducat, a 20 francs of Bonaparte and a decent 8 escudos!Don't have any new pieces (2 on their way though!) atm so i'll post some of my first crowns!

 

1558 Philipsdaaler, Brabant

 

1641/39 Augsburg taler

 

1809 8 reales ,Mexico

 

That 8 reales is stunning!

 

Here is a later Philip II Philipsdaalder for BRABANT, dated 1588, minted in Antwerp.

An interesting difference is that Philip's arms now include Portugal (small escutcheon in centre of top half - cross of 5 shields in bordure of 7 castles). Unfortunately, like many Brabant daalders of this period, the condition is not very good and you can't see the arms very well.
When Henrique I of Portugal died childless in 1580, three grandchildren of his father Manuel I claimed the throne: Infanta Catarina, Duchess of Braganza, António, Prior of Crato, and Philip II of Spain. Philip defeated António's troops in the Battle of Alcântara and was crowned King as Philip (Filipe) I of Portugal in 1581. Portugal was immediately added to his coat of arms.

 

1757 Hohenlohe Taler

 

1678 Piastra , Papal States