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Welcome back!
Yep. Saint Sebastian. Lashed to a tree and made into an archery target.
There was a sort of one-upsmanship among the medieval hagiographers of Christian saints to write increasingly gruesome (and increasingly unbelievable) accounts of how some of them died.
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Kingdom of Saxony - Johann (1854-1873) 1859 Thaler  |
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Here is a 1521 batzen from the city of Ottingen: Very nice!  |
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I'm sort of back :) New PC, retrieved my backups Glad to have you back.  Quote:
- but lost some more recent high quality images and Windows 11 is playing merry havoc with some of my softwear...   Quote:
Kingdom of Saxony - Johann (1854-1873) 1859 Thaler Fantastic! |
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Nice addition, Bacchus2. Errers and Varietys.
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Grand Duchy of Oldenburg - Peter II (1853-1900) 1866 Thaler  |
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Grand Duchy of Oldenburg - Peter II (1853-1900) 1866 Thaler Excellent! |
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very nice additions |
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Grand Duchy of Oldenburg - Peter II (1853-1900) 1866 Thaler Nice addition! Errers and Varietys.
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Keeping on with the 19th century thalers Kingdom of Bavaria - Maximilian II (1848-1864) 1861 Thaler  |
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Those thalers make for both an impressive portrait gallery and a sort of guide to German heraldry. Very impressive! Here is a 1513 half batzen of the Bishopric of Regensburg. Another place using those episcopal keys (an earlier coin from the Bishopric of Bremen had them too)   |
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Nice examples! |
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Another neat coin. I wonder why the keys are of different sizes. Just the engravor doing his thing for the episcopal keys representation - or representative of a specific set of keys for that city where they combined the imagery? Probably the former - but interesting to note.
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I wonder why the keys are of different sizes... Probably the former - but interesting to note. An interesting thought.  |
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Nice additions. Errers and Varietys.
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