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Yes good point @tdz. That is Mary on the rev. My last coins this week are from 13th and 14th Century Serbia. All three have Jesus enthroned, but the earliest one also includes St. Stephan handing King Stefan the patriarchal cross. 1243-1279 AD:   1331-1345 AD:   1346-1355 AD:   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Lots of nice coins the last few days to end the week! In honor of the holiday this weekend, I am going to cheat and recycle the reverse of a coin I posted earlier (Week 2,D-E-F a scudo of the Italian city-state of Ferrara), and then follow it with an undated Venetian half grosso (1343-54) showing Jesus stepping out of the sepulchre on Easter (I was amused to see that a Jewish tomb of the 1st century had crosses carved on on it  ). I hadn't planned for us to hit Venice by Easter weekend (honest), but glad it worked out that way.    Edited by tdziemia
04/11/2020 9:17 pm
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Huh. I didn't really think of Jesus as a saint, or I would've probably posted some Byzantines myself. Anyway, I can't think of anything I have that would apply to week four, so week five, coin four... (I think this type had already been posted here, in better condition. I'm still happy to have this coin, though.) Münster, 6 pfenning 1762 - St. Peter St. Paul (thanks for the correction!)   I've posted a Russian coin for week six before (will have to check if I have anything eligible from Poland though), so coin five will probably be week seven. Have yet to check if I have anything for week eight... Edited by january1may
04/12/2020 08:10 am
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I didn't really think of Jesus as a saint I agree, though most of the coins posted with Jesus also have a saint on the other side (Mark, Mary, Stefan, etc). Nice St. Paul. There is not much to find for Poland, except for early medievals that might have St. Adalbert (the attribution on one of mine is a bit uncertain). Many more possibilities in Bohemia and Silesia if you have coins from those places in your collection. Edited by tdziemia
04/12/2020 06:37 am
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Between Vatican, Venice, and those great catch-up contributions of @j1m, @spence and others for places we missed earlier, that was a super week!
We now have images of saints from 70 different principalities:
Aachen - Charlemagne (2)
Andorra - Charlemagne
Arezzo - St. Donato
Australia - St. George (2)
Bavaria - Mary as Madonna (6)
Berne - St. Vincent
Bingen - St. Martin of Tours
Bohemia - St Adalbert and St. Wenceslas (2)
Brabant - St. Andrew, St. Michael, St. Peter, St. Philip
Bremen - St Wilehad, St. Peter
Brunswick (city) - St. Anne
Brunswick-Lunenburg-Calenberg - St. Andrew
Brunswick-Luneburg-Calenberg-Hanover - St. Andrew (3)
Bulgaria - St. Ivan of Rila, Jesus, Mary as Madonna
Byzantium - Jesus (2), Mary
Canada - St. George (3)
Carmagnola - St. Constantius
Constance - St. Conrad
Corvey - St. Vitus
Ferrara - St. George (2), Mary Magdalene, St. Maurelius
France - Gabriel, Mary
Georgia - St. Mamas
Goslar - Sts Simon & Jude, St. Matthias
Gotha - St. Gotthard
Great Britain/U.K. - St. George (12)
Hessen - St Elizabeth of Thuringia
Hildesheim - St. Bernward, Mary as Madonna
Hungary - Mary, Madonna (19), John the Baptist
Iserlohn - St. Pancras
Kempten - Hildegard
Koln - St. Peter (6)
Leignitz-Brieg - St. Peter, St. Hedwig
Liege - St. Lambert
Limoges - St. Martial
Lucca - St. Martin
Luzerne - St. Leodegar
Mainz - St. Peter (3)
Mansfeld - St. George
Metz - St. Stephen
Milan - St Ambrose (3)
Munster - St. Paul (9)
Naples - St. Michael, St. Gabriel, Mary
Ottingen - St Sebastian (2)
Papal States - St. Bruno, St. George (2), St. Matthew
Parma - St. Thomas
Passau - St. Stephen
Poland - St. Adalbert, Jesus
Portuguese India - St. Philip
Ragusa - Jesus(3), St. Blaise(3)
Ravenna - San Apollinare
Regensburg - St. Peter(2), St. Wolfgang
Rimini - St. Gaudentius
Russia - St. George(10)
Saint Veit - St. Veith(2)
Salerno - St. Matthew
Salzburg - St. Rupert (7), Mary as Madonna, St. Martin, St. Vincent, St. Hermes, Sts. Chrysanthus & Daria
San Marino - St. Marinus
Scotland - St. Andrew
Serbia - Jesus (3), St. Stefan
Slovakia - St. Cyril & Methodius
Soest - St. Patroclus
Solothurn -St. Ursus
Souligny Priory - St. Mayeul
South Africa - St. George
Transylvania - Mary as Madonna
Trier - St. Peter (7)
Tuscany - St. Francis, Jesus, St. John Baptist (3)
United States - St. Eligius
Vatican - St Peter(4), St Paul
Venice - St. Mark(10), Jesus(7), Justina
This week we hit the end of the alphabet, W-X-Y-Z, and we might have trouble, so anyone who is just now finding this thread should feel free to post anything from places that show up earlier in the alphabet.
Here are some possibilities I could find, but each week there are surprises
Werden - St. Ludger
Wismar - St. Lawrence
Wroclaw/Breslau - St. John the Baptist
Wurzburg - St. CHristopher, St. Killian
Zurich - CHarlemagne, Sts. Felix, Regula & Exuperantius)
Zeitz - St. Michael
Zwolle - S. Michael
Let's see 'em!
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Certainly my nicest coin in this part of the alphabet is this 1563 doppelschilling of Wismar with an image of St. Lawrence, who we haven't seen before (he is also on some coins of Nuremberg, but mostly larger silver and gold, I think)   |
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There is not much to find for Poland, except for early medievals that might have St. Adalbert (the attribution on one of mine is a bit uncertain). Many more possibilities in Bohemia and Silesia if you have coins from those places in your collection. I was thinking of 19th century Russian occupation coins with St. George. I don't have any Polish coins older than 15th century. I don't think any of my Bohemian coins have saints on them; nothing at all from Silesia, alas. OTOH, I've found a nice one from Czech Republic (though I will have to photograph the coin). That aside, week seven (maybe?), coin five... Venetian Crete, tornesello Antonio Venier (1382-1400) (Lion of) St. Mark   I might try to take some better photos later. In hand it's slightly more legible. I'm not sure if it should go under V for Venice or C for Crete, though. Or maybe V for Venetian Crete? (Numista has it under a yet fourth option, "Venice-Crete", but only as a currency under Venice.) |
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I will list it under Crete-Venetian, since I like the idea of adding another place  Quote:
I was thinking of 19th century Russian occupation coins with St. George. I completely forgot. Here is my only one (still the auction photo, as I never got around to taking one). And I have the same dilemma as your Crete coin: is this Poland (under Russia), or is it Russia - Warsaw mint? Earlier in 19th century there was still a Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1831) and "Congress Poland (1815-31), but by 1852 Poland had truly vanished from the map. Krause has this under Russia, and the same type is minted at other Russian mints, so for numismatic purposes, I guess it is Russia (my great-grandfather would turn in his grave to hear me say that. He was born in the Warsaw area in 1852)...  Edited by tdziemia
04/12/2020 10:47 am
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Krause has this under Russia, and the same type is minted at other Russian mints, so for numismatic purposes, I guess it is Russia Probably. The coin I had in mind is from the late 1830s, when Poland still technically had its own currency. (TIL that coins denominated in Polish currency were issued all the way until 1850. Now I want to get some examples of those two weird types from the 1840s - even if they're probably quite expensive...) |
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Here is a 1684 schilling of the German city of Wurzburg with an image of St. Killian (he is NOT the patron saint of beer, but he WAS Irish!)   |
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@tdz, it isn't on the list, but it looks to me like the Swiss Canton of Zug also got into the whole saints-on-coins thing. Here is an 18th Century Schilling with St. Wolfgang on the rev.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Very nice! Yes, that list is pretty good on the Germanic world, and it has Wolfgang for Regensburg, but misses this place. Nice catch (especially for the letter Z)! The list also misses all the "Eastern" saints like @j1m's Ivan and Mamas, and your Stefan for Serbia. Here is another one that's not on the list, this St. Gertrude on a 1919 5 pfennig notgeld coin of Wattenscheid   |
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Bishopric of Wurzburg - 5 kreuzer, 1748:   (Doesn't appear to be St. KIllian or St. Cristopher) This is my last coin for this thread. |
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