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I agree that we got some more great coins posted today—so glad we are taking our time on this thread. Keep 'em coming from the 1570s!
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@JohnC, my wife (who has a small Tudor & Stuart collection) said she is impressed that the engraver achieved such detail on such a small coin. It's really a gem. Very nice to see the diversity of issuing authorities.... to which I will add another, Spanish Netherlands, Duchy of Brabant 1/2 Philipsdaalder 1574, Antwerp mint   Edited by tdziemia
08/09/2021 9:37 pm
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@tdziemia, thanks, yes it's quite amazing they engraved coins that size. I don't know how they did it, although I have tiny pre-Roman coins with a lot of detail, so it seems to be a skill that'd been around a long time. How in the Iron Age they could engrave detail smaller than I can see without a camera and a zoom function, I don't know.
Nice coin, by the way. Those Dutch issues are the opposite of tiny!
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Looks like we are slowing down a bit so let's please drop back another decade starting Saturday morning. With that said, I can't resist posting this 16 Sols from Maastricht dating to 1579 AD. It's pretty big at 34 mm and 9.7 g and is attributed as VGN 154.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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I will start the 1560s, since thanks to Elizabeth I, this is my peak for the next 1200 years. This is another tiny coin, although my largest of the 4 decades so far (3 of which have been Elizabeth I). Elizabeth I Three Halfpence, 1561 Tower. Silver, 0.71g. Third issue, bust 3G, medium flan, large rose, small shield. Mintmark pheon. E · D · G · ROSA · SINE · SPINA. Long cross fourchee over quartered shield of arms, CIVI TAS LON DON (S 2569). |
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Another gem! I've posted this previously on the How Far Back threads, as it's my only non-Poland coin from the 1560s. City of Wismar (Germany), 1563 Doppelschilling. Obv: City coat of arms (yes, that's a cow sticking its tongue out) over long cross, MONE NOVA WISM ARIE Rev: Standing figure of St. Lawrence holding palm and gridiron, date(6 3) to left and right of feet, SANCTVS LAVRENC KM#MB-58   Edited by tdziemia
08/15/2021 09:52 am
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That's one of my faves @tdz. I'll figure out something to post in the next day or two and then we can ponder dropping back another decade.
"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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I'll post one more Elizabeth I while we're still in a decade I can do. Elizabeth I Sixpence, 1562 Tower. Silver, 3.0g. Large rose, bust C, mintmark star (S 2595). Milled by Eloy Mestrelle around June 1562, the 4th type of milled sixpence in the first year of milled coins in Britain. Edited by JohnConduitt
08/17/2021 09:45 am
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City of Wismar (Germany), 1563 Doppelschilling That monk-like saint image is just wonderful! Edited: Corrected some hasty scribbling  Edited by erafjel
08/17/2021 3:51 pm
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Here is a Half Batzen from the German County of Stolberg-Konigstein-Rochefort dated 1564 AD.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Let's drop back to the decade of the 1550s starting Saturday morning. I think that I've got a cow to post then too...
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Elizabeth I AR Three-Pence 1569, Tower Mint, 19mm, 1.26g, 45°, S2566  Edited by MartiVltori
08/20/2021 10:32 am
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Great to see the English coins! I hope they continue. Papal states, undated giulio of Pope Paul IV 1555-1559, Rome mint. Obv: Carafa coat of arms, topped by papal keys and tiara. PAVLVS IIII PONT MAX Rev: Standing figure of St. Paul, nimbate, holding book in left had and sword in right. S PAVLVS ALMA ROMA Berman 1040. I am not quite sure what has happened to the obverse, but the lower part of the shield and part of the legend appear to have been struck twice, the second time with rotation clockwise of about 20 degrees.   |
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*** Not definitively attributable to this decade *** Akbar I AR Half Mahmudi 1556 - 1605, Mulher, 12mm, 2.69g, ~80°, Unlisted, Rare. Full Mahmudi are KM 72. Obv: Kalima. Rev: Name of Akbar and titles.  |
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Very nice coins so far and glad to have you contributing @marti! Here is a Sechling from the Germany Duchy of Mecklenburg. It was minted in Gadebusch and is dated 1552 AD. The obv inscription is IOHAN ALBERT DEI GR while the rev inscription is DVX ME GAP 1552 V T I O. And yep that is a bull on the front, perhaps a nod to the region's agricultural heritage.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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