Walking Back In Time From 1600 To Antiquity By Decades (V3.0)

Good question @tdz, but one to which I don't know the answer. Maybe I need to study the letter I next.

This is a Groschen from the German Archbishopric of Cologne that is dated 1438 AD. It was minted at Riehl and is attributed as Levinson I-44. It is my last AD-dated coin for this decade, but not the last one with this design that we will be seeing on this thread.

As far as I can tell, 834 AH = 1430/1 AD, mostly 1431.
This means that, as far as I can tell, the list of gaps remains unchanged: 1435, 1432, 1430.

Awesome coin! And nice to know that there's something to look for in the 1430s from the Islamic side as well.

I have a coin that might be from 1430s or later, but I seem to have problems photographing it.
My next entry after that is 1380s (a recent ID of a slightly less recent purchase), though I have some Prague groschens that might slot somewhere in between (I don't know the typology for them, however, so I'm not very confident of the dating).

Thx for the date input @j1m!

Any last entries for this decade? Maybe let's plan to drop back to the 1420s starting tomorrow am.

I have a fair few for the 1420s, but nothing that can be tied to an exact year.

Here's another of Henry VI, a halfgroat from Calais. I have another Henry VI halfgroat and groat from Calais in addition to this - I'm not sure how I came to have so many when I'm aiming for one coin per monarch. But this and another came with details of where they were found, which makes them unusual.

Henry VI Annulet Issue Halfgroat, 1422-1427

Calais. Silver, 22.7mm, 1.5g. Annulets either side of bust, hENRIC' DI' GRA' REX A[NG]LIE Z F', mintmark cross II. Long cross pattee with 3 dots in each quadrant, two with annulets, POSVI/ DEVM/ ADIVT/ORE' [M'] // VIL/LA/ CAL/LIS' (S 1840).

This scrappy coin is from the Buttermere (Wiltshire) Hoard 2019. It contained 12 coins but had been scattered, and probably included the 30 coins found nearby. The hoard was recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme HAMP-CDF2F1.

It contained an Edward III groat, 8 Henry VI groats and 2 Henry VI halfgroats. But it's an Edward IV halfgroat that dates it to 1464-1470, Edward IV's first reign, during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487).

At the time, Buttermere Manor was occupied by William Ludlow, butler to Kings Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI and MP for Ludgershall, Wiltshire.

Like Ludlow, the landowners in the area seem to have been Lancastrians, including the noble Hungerford family. Sir Thomas Hungerford of Rowden, Wiltshire, whose father was executed by Edward IV, supported the Lancastrians and was executed himself for supporting a conspiracy to restore Henry VI. He was said to have "received the fullest and protracted horrors of a fifteenth century execution." Yikes.

This Groschen from the German City State of Aachen is my avatar. It was minted in 1420 AD and has been in my collection for a little over a decade. The obv inscription is SCS KAROL MA G IPERATO and the rev inscription is ANNO DOMINI MILESIMO CCCC XX MONETA VRB AQVS. It is interesting to me that the number thousand is written out, while the four hundreds and two tens use Roman Numerals. This coin is attributed as Levinson I-15.

@tdz, you have been diving into the low countries a bunch lately. Despite the edge erosion on this 2 Mite, I like it and it is a good addition to your collection.

Here are a couple more Ottoman Akces from my collection. The top is dated AH 824 (retrograde order) and the bottom is dated AH 825, so it seems like I've pretty much got 1421 and 1422 AD covered between these two coins. They are attributed as Album 1302.1 and 1302.2, respectively.

The coins are getting more varied the further back we go! Plenty I knew nothing about.

I'm going back to Russia again - we're getting into quite an interesting period there politically and numismatically.

This is (probably) from Vasily Vasiliyevich's first reign of three or four as Grand Prince of Moscow (1425-1434).

This was one of a 'new' style of coin, the earliest being struck from 1418 (starting under Vasily Dmitriyevich). I don't think this particular design was amongst the very earliest. Some experts have them being struck in the 1430s.

Vasily II the Blind Denga, 1425-1433

Moscow. Silver, 0.6g. Rider with a falcon; point rim. Imitation of an Arabic inscription (Metz 11; HPF 407 J var, imitation M3, reverse VI).

The obverse is a familiar-looking horseman, although this one held a falcon rather than a sabre or spear.

The reverse is a blundered attempt at an inscription from a Golden Horde dang. I think it's upside down, but since it doesn't actually say anything, that probably doesn't matter.