28 Weeks: 28 Centuries Of Coins

1614 Spain 8 reales of Phillip III, Segovia mint. ex Huntington.

1660 Bisanz (Besançon) thaler of Charles V (posthumous).

Spanish Netherlands
AE jeton : Charles II : 1665-1700
obv: Carol II D.G/HISP.ET INDIAR.REX 1683
rev : GETS POUR LE BUREAU DES FINAN
31 mm , 6.3 gr , 3 h
Dugniolle III-IV,p 12 nr:4576 . albert

China, Shunzi emperor, 1644-1661
Shang tung mint

That's some nice English silver right there!

I suppose I might as well show off more of my 17th century coins...

Sorry for the awful photos - I suck at coin photography.



...I especially suck at hurried coin photography (I think this one was for a smackdown that was quickly running out of time).

Peter I wire kopek, double struck, "Russia" variety (KG 1586), either very late joint rule or very early sole rule, circa 1696 AD.

There's a lot more detail in the smackdown post, and even more in the clarification post (later in that same thread); though I no longer consider the specific date version given in the latter post particularly likely (still, "circa 1696" is fairly certain, and it's definitely unambiguously 17th century).

I might as well copy the entire description for this one from when I entered it in a smackdown. It's a funny story.

(Also I just missed showcasing it in HFBCWG-3. But whatever.)




The obverse of this coin claims it was minted in the Russian year [7]113 AM, which corresponds to 1605 AD - early in the reign of False Dmitry.
Meanwhile, the reverse claims (well, is supposed to claim - my example isn't particularly readable) that it is a coin of Vasily (Shuysky), who didn't take the throne until 1606.
Contradiction? Yes. So which of them actually issued this coin? Neither.
The actual attribution: Novgorod mint kopek issued during Swedish occupation of Novgorod, 1615-17.

It's a somewhat funny story. Novgorod already had a well-established mint when the Swedes "conquered" the town in 1611; well, Sweden claimed that by "conquered" they meant "liberated from danger of Polish attacks" (it did make a bit of sense in context - we're talking about the period when a Polish ruler briefly took the Russian throne). Anyway, since the Swedes did in fact plan to use Novgorod as a base to conquer more of Russia (spoiler: it didn't succeed), they started to mint money in there - using whatever local dies (okay, technically hubs) they could find. (They actually started off with a somewhat realistic die pairing, but for some reason switched to this one in 1615; no idea why.)
Meanwhile, the situation in Russia became relatively stable after Michael (Romanov) took the throne in 1613; and while taking Novgorod by force wasn't a likely possibility, the Swedes soon realized that they couldn't gain much more, either. In 1617, a peace treaty was signed, giving Sweden significant areas on the Baltic [most of that would be Russian again within 100 years] but leaving Novgorod with Russia; so the Swedish coin issue in Novgorod stopped that year (as they didn't control the mint anymore).