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Here are two actual British crowns worth 5 shillings. Very nice!  I always enjoy your posts; nice examples and excellent commentary. |
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My newest acquisition is my oldest dated coin and precisely 400 years older than me. This "crown" was minted in Joachimsthal, Bohemia in 1560 during the reign of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia.  |
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Very nice! |
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Certainly on the lower end of a crown, but pre-war Bulgaria didn't mint a lot of large silver coins.   |
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This Bulgaria is struck to the same standards, but with a naturalistic instead of a modernistic design.   |
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1745 Zürich Thaler. The Free Cities of the Holy Roman Empire, subordinate only to the emperor, enjoyed a certain amount of self-rule. Without the need to display the local secular or ecclesiastical rulers, some chose to display their city. The coins of the Swiss canton of Zürich, a republic after 1648, features such a "city view" design.  Edited by jgenn
05/08/2015 10:20 pm
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Without the need to display the local secular or ecclesiastical rulers, some chose to display their city. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing your example. |
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Time to feature another crown. This one is the 1723 British crown of George I, first of the Hanoverian monarchs. This single year type is noted for the "SS" and "C" lettering on the reverse -- for the South Sea Company -- a join-stock company infamous for a speculative stock bubble that burst in 1720. The resulting investigation revealed fraud and corruption at the highest levels and forced the reorganization of the company and confiscation of wealth from its directors, the source of this coinage.  Edited by jgenn
05/13/2015 11:46 pm
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A fairly unusual topic for a crown - Space Travel! This was one of a set of crowns issued by the Pobjoy Mint for the Isle of Man in 1999, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first Moon Landing:  |
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I love space stuff. Very nice! |
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A recent pickup from my LCS -- a Sol from South Peru. Drove me nuts trying to find it on the NGC site, until I checked under South Peru.   |
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1746 British Crown of George II. Unlike the 'VIGO' crown that I posted earlier, the 'LIMA' coins were actually minted from captured silver. Quote:
During the War of the Austrian Succession, Great Britain was the ally of Maria Theresa of Austria, and fought its two greatest maritime rivals, France and Spain. In July 1745, Captains James Talbot and John Morecock, commanding two privateers in the North Atlantic, the Prince Frederick and the Duke, captured two French treasure ships returning from Callao, the port of Lima. Their haul was £800,000 in silver coins and ingots, plus gold and other goods. When they landed at Bristol in October it took 45 wagons to transport the coin and bullion (which weighed over 78 tons) to the Tower Mint. There the silver was used in the production of the so-called 'Lima' coinage of 1746. It was requested that the word 'Lima' be used on the coins to celebrate the exploit.
-from the British Museum (www.britishmuseum.org)  |
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Austro-hungarian empire 1900 - 5 Corona. One of my favorite designs.   I also fell in love with 5 lati coins of the first Latvian republic (have 2 of 3), but don't have any pictures/scans yet. |
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Nice to see this thread revived. |
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