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Wow! The saints really came marching in yesterday! Thanks @arkie for kicking in another St. George from Canada. I knew there had to be more of them out there among CCF members. Here is another saint-bishop more obscure than the last one, St Bernward, on this 1493 sechsling of the city of Hildesheim. It seems that Hildesheim was quite a holy place, with three of its bishops in the 9th-11th centuries venerated as saints   Edited by tdziemia
03/12/2020 08:23 am
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We've already seen Hungary and Bavaria with Mary as a patron saint, and madonnas on their coins. There were many other places in Europe that used the image of the madonna on their coins, including (not surprisingly) Papal States, other Italian city-states like Genoa, and parts of the Holy Roman Empire like Austria, Nuremburg, Hamburg. Even earlier, she is shown in a different posture, crowning emperors on Byzantine coins. Here is another madonna on this mariengroschen from Hildesheim   Edited by tdziemia
03/13/2020 5:22 pm
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Who's got a Hungary 1938 5 Pengo coin?
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"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."
-----King Adz
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Can never have enough madonnas! Nice ones! Quote:
Who's got a Hungary 1938 5 Pengo coin? Quote:
Not me, but... I don't either, but I thought one of our world crown collectors might have one. That would give us a new saint, Stephen who was king of Hungary at the turn of the first millenium. I've always found it curious that there are so many of these up for sale on ebay, when the mintage was not all that high (600,000), |
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Sorry, my 5 pengos are Admiral Horthy.
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03/14/2020 3:44 pm
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A really great showing for Hungary this week! Here are a couple more from the 17th Century and one from the 18th Century showing Mary: 1614 AD:   1671 AD:   1703 AD:   "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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Now that Hungary is so well covered, here is a notgeld (Germany) coin with an image of St. Pancras, a patron saint of Iserlohn, Germany. British forum members may wonder why St Pancras shows up on a coin of Germany, when the most famous locale with this name is in London. According to Christian tradition, Pancras was a Christian youth martyred in Rome in the time of Diocletian, about 300 A.D. His cult was popular in Europe in the late 6th century, when Pope Gregory the Great sent Augustine on his mission to convert the Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of England. So Augusine left Rome with some of Pancras' relics, which eventually found their way to an early Christian Church (and neighborhood) in London which bears his name.   |
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Thanks to everyone for the contributions thus far for letters A - I!
Now now we can turn to letters J-K-L which I think may be a bit leaner than the last week. If you are seeing this thread for the first time, please don't hesitate to post your contributions from earlier in the alphabet.
This far, we've covered these place-saint combinations:
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)
Canada - St. George (3)
Carmagnola - St. Constanmtius
Constance - St. Conrad
Corvey - St. Vitus
Ferrara - St. George (2), Mary Magdalene, St. Maurelius
France - Gabriel, Mary
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, Mary as Madonna (19), John the Baptist
Iserlohn - St. Pancras
For J-K-L, places where we might encounter images of saints include
Jever - St. Jodokus
Julich-Berg - St. Hubert
Kampen - St. Nicholas
Kempten - Hildegard, St. Magnus
Koln (Cologne) - St. Peter
Leuchtenberg - St. George
Liege - St. George, St. Lambert
Liegnitz-Brieg - St. Hedwig
Limoges - St. Martial
Lorraine - St. Nicholas
Lubeck - King David, John the Baptist
Lucca - St. Martin, Volto Santo
Luneberg - St. John the Baptist
Luzerne - St. Leodegar, St. Mauritius
So, let's see them!
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03/14/2020 11:25 pm
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This 1623 1 kreuzer coin from the Abbey of Kempten has an image of Hildegard of Bingen, one of the most amazing women of her era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_BingenI don't know the connection between Kempten (in Swabia, southern Germany) and Hildegard, whose mission was farther north, near Mainz. Both were Benedictine, and I suppose her renown spread through the order (coins with her image were being minted in Kempten by the early 1200s, just a generatin after her death)   Edited by tdziemia
03/15/2020 09:40 am
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Saint Peter on a 1503 1/2 albus (schilling) coin of the Archbishoprc of Cologne:   Edited by tdziemia
03/16/2020 9:31 pm
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Nice one from Koln/Cologne @tdz! I've got a few to add to this week from there, including this 14th Century White Pfennig minted in Bonn:   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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 I find it interesting that Saint Peter is represented on a throne (normally a symbol of secular power) in this period. I think it reflects the reality that many German city-states had "prince-bishops" in this era, who had wielded simultaneous religious and secular authority. |
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