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 Posted 11/16/2013  3:47 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add evaldaskowka to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello everyone, I'm trying to find name/type/country of a coin my father has found.


On the front I can only see word "MARKE" there is another word which I cannot understand
On the back there are 2 shield and in the middle of them standing a knight.
I can also locate a word "STATD" and probably "FULDA"

The year it self isn't very readable I can only see 1x17
By the back side judging from a knight that coin should be 1617-1817 perhaps? you are the experts I leave this to you. I have also taken some pictures but the front side of the coin is very flat so nothing much left to see on it.
front

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9702/t3zs.jpg
back
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/8g3q.jpg/

Thanks in advance

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 Posted 11/16/2013  4:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyJames to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Fulda is a city in Hessen, Germany. Before Germany existed as we know it, individual cities would mint their own coinage. The word 'Stadt' means city in German. The 'Marke' is referring to the standard with which the coin was based. It probably has some roman numerals and the words "Eine Feine Marck". That dictates how many of that coin are required to make one Fine Mark (234g or 8 oz of silver). perhaps it was spelled "Marke" at the time that coin was made. The fact that those letters are on the coin means it's bigger than 1 pfennig/1 kreuzer and smaller than 1/2 Thaler.

Your description and pictures don't clearly match up with anything in my "Standard Catalog of German Coins". Some clear photos would definitely help a ton.
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11/16/2013 4:25 pm
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