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Odd Livonia Solidus?

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 Posted 04/20/2014  08:49 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add calkinsc to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I picked up what looks to be a Livonia Solidus recently (image below) due to how far off-center it was - interesting to see the marks on the plate around where the coin should have been cut from. I tried to attribute it using the Standard Catalog of World Coins (I have the 4th ed of the 1600-1701 volume), but am having difficulty.

It looks to be KM #50 under Livonia - it seems to be the right style, it looks to have an IG (as in RIGA) before the date, etc. - but that particular type is supposed to have ended in 1660, while mine is 1662. Also, that type should be in silver, while mine looks to be copper - arguably billon, but a very very low amount of silver, then.

What is this? Is it just an error in KM and the type does run to 1662, although 1662 is listed with a different style under KM #55? Is this a contemporary counterfeit, as is noted for certain dates of KM #55? Or, is this just listed elsewhere in SCWC and I haven't come across it yet? I did try Sweden, Poland, etc. as likely candidates.

Thanks!

Odd-Livonia-Solidus?
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04/20/2014 08:51 am
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 Posted 04/20/2014  1:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Contemporary counterfeit sounds likely - for this particular issue, a lot of them were made in Suceava (or Suczava or Suczawa or however you spell it).

Apparently, these are also known for date confusion, which makes the Suc?a[vw]a attribution for this coin even more likely.
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Thanks! Makes sense if it was.
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