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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4528463, member: 102103&quot;]I&#039;ve been photographing and researching some previous purchases, and it&#039;s startling how often the attribution from the coin shop is wrong for coins before the 1800s.&nbsp; Case in point:&nbsp; This one was sold as &quot;Poland, Solidus, 1601-1625&nbsp; $8-&quot;.&nbsp; I wracked my brain looking through my 1600s coin book and on Numista, but couldn&#039;t find anything which looked right.&nbsp; Here&#039;s what I could read:</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse:&nbsp; SIGIS III DG RE POLO, Crowned S with cross in shield, center</p><p>Reverse:&nbsp; SOLIDVS 1612, Decorative shield with two crossed keys under cross</p><p>0.95 g, 18 mm diameter</p><p><br /></p><p>After much head-scratching, I think it&#039;s from Polish ruled Livonia.&nbsp; It&#039;s almost an exact match for <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces78799.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces78799.html" rel="nofollow">this coin</a>.&nbsp; The lettering in the legend varies from year to year.&nbsp; Mine matches the 1612 entry on Numista, except the X from &quot;REX&quot; seems to be missing on mine.&nbsp; There&#039;s not even much of a space between &quot;RE&quot; and &quot;POLO&quot; so it&#039;s not likely to be worn off or weakly struck.&nbsp; It was struck significantly off center, so I&#039;m missing the text &quot;CIVI RIGEN&quot; on the reverse.&nbsp; That would have been a nice hint to point me in the right direction that it was from Riga, Livonia and not Poland.&nbsp; Fortunately the date and the name of the ruler were mostly visible.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m actually glad to have a Livonian coin, as I already have a Polish-Lithuanian coin from Sigismund III Vasa, and this is a new type for me.&nbsp; Most of these old silvers are modestly enough priced ($8) that I can&#039;t go too far wrong, so long as they are not modern counterfeits.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1121645[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If you like, please feel free to post any misattributed or questionable coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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