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1780 Thaler - But Precisely What Type?

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 Posted 06/17/2014  10:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add austrokiwi to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Lucky Cuss, the two dots in the central Austrian sheild is a mint mark to the Vienna Mint.


Small clarification I believe it was an unobtrusive authentication mark. Vienna mint wasn't the only one to use it the Swiss Gold Abschlag( Abschlag sounds so much better than "off-metal-strike") has those dots, and I wouldn't be surprised if some Rome mint coins also had it
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Lucky Cuss, the two dots in the central Austrian sheild is a mint mark to the Vienna Mint.


Oh. Thanks for the link to the other thread (albeit I haven't gotten through all 26 pages of it yet). I hadn't realized there was such a comprehensive discussion already here, but I ought to have guessed as much. I do see that these dots and their significance are mentioned early on there. However, my #1 (the better struck specimen) does not have them. So exactly what does that indicate, if anything? Even if the dots do verify that a coin was struck at Vienna, it doesn't follow as a logical necessity that their absence means that a coin was struck elsewhere, even though that may be in fact what is the case.

Edit: I should add that I'm now wavering on my previous thought that #1 and #2 are of the same type, despite the coincidence of their weights and similarity in dimensions.
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an unobtrusive authentication mark


Yes, this is a more proper attribution than a mint mark. Thanks austrokiwi.
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