Walking Back In Time From 1600 To Antiquity By Decades (V2.0)

I guess that pumpkin just had a pretty rough life!

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Here is a 1 tanka piece from the Indian state of Jaunpur. With the date of 896 written on it, it was made in around 1491 in the Gregorian calendar:

As the hours draw nigh on the 1490s I'll post this undated coin recently won at auction that fits my saints collection.

Bern (Switzerland)Dicken undated, minted around 1492.
Obv St. Vincent, + SANCTUS VINCENCIUS
Rev Bear and eagle, MONETA * NO * BERNENSIS

Unusually massive coin for the era (9.6 g) before arrival of new world silver, sign of civic pride for the wealthy Swiss burghers.

St. Vincent was a deacon of the diocese of Zaragoza Spain who was martyred around 304 AD in the persecutions of Diocletian. How he became a patron saint of Bern is anyone's guess

This coin wasn't dated narrowly enough to advance the How Far Back Can We Go thread, but it's sufficiently narrow for this one...



Shirvanshahs, Derbendi dynasty, Farrukhsiyar (Farrukhyasar).
AR tanka, third standard (about 2.06 g). Shemakha mint.
Album 2471.3, Zlobin type 043.0, minted 892-4 AH (1487-9 AD), dated 89x (mostly off flan).

Sorry for all the glare in the photos; the coin is in a 2x2 holder.

I completely agree, but in the interest of mixing things up a little, I'll be posting a coin from elsewhere in the Netherlands tomorrow.

Jumping the gun a bit with a 1475 Brabant double briquet of the previous ruler, Charles le Temeraire (variously translated as "The Bold" or "The Reckless"), father of Marie of Burgundy (coin posted by Spence).

Obv legend: KAROL DEI GR DUX BG BRA Z LI (Charles by the grace of god Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Zeeland and Limburg)
Rev legend looks same as the earlier Brabant coin:
SALVV FAC PPLM TVV DNE A 1475

Historical context of Charles the Bold, and his daughter Marie. In the 1400s, the House of Burgundy controlled wealthy lands form southeast France to the North Sea (Burgundy, Luxembourg, Flanders, Brabant, Zeeland) legacy of the Carolingian "Lotharingia" and Charles aspired to consolidate this area into a kingdom (as opposed to a string of duchies, counties etc) between France and the Holy Roman Empire.
But Lorraine, allied with the French throne, stood in the way. In a back-and-forth struggle to capture and keep Lorraine he was killed in battle at Nancy Jan. 5, 1477. This was effectively the end of the House of Burgundy, and a pivot point in European history. His only offspring, daughter Marie, married into the Hapsburgs, and served as duchess of Burgundy, Brabant, etc., until her tragic death in a horseriding accident in 1482. Her son Philip ("the fair") became the first Hapsburg king of Spain (as well as duke of Brabant) and began the line of Spanish kings that persists today.

Is that our first date in Roman numerals?

My only other coin that can be (semi-) definitively placed in the 1470s is this Groschen from Goslar, Germany.
Attribution is Saurma 2145. I have seen this type variously referred to as `1470/71. and just "1470 and after." Glad for any insights on that.

Obv: Standing Saint Matthias. SANCTUS MATHIAS
Rev: Eagle. MONETA NOVA GOSLARIEN

Goslar is in central Germany's Harz Mountains. It was far more important in early medieval times than now, when it was an imperial residence for the Salian and Hohenstaiufen emperors from around 1025 to 1250. The nearby Rammelsberg silver mines would have been an important source of coinage metals.

St. Matthias was the apostle chosen after Jesus' death to replace Judas, and hence the only apostle not personally chosen by Jesus. In Christian iconography, he is seen holding a book (for his preaching) and an axe, the instrument of his martyrdom. The book is not so clear in this picture, but the axe (a tall medieval halberd) is held upright in his left hand.

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