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Rdwarrior Valued Member United States 266 Posts	Posted 11/29/2016 1:06 pm Anyone have any ideas on this one? Edited by Rdwarrior 11/29/2016 1:07 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Spence Moderator United States 34527 Posts	Posted 11/29/2016 9:54 pm @rdwarrior, that is a good challenge. I'm still trying to decipher the inscriptions and having only modest luck on the second pic (last three digits are E P S). Certainly seems European and most likely 1500s to 1700s. Is it about 20 mm in diameter and 1 g in mass? I'll spend some more time looking for this little silver denar/pfennig, but hopefully someone else can weigh in also. "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 Report this Post to the Staff
Rdwarrior Valued Member United States 266 Posts	Posted 11/29/2016 11:22 pm Spence, thanks for the reply. The weight is .85g and the diameter is approx 20 mm. I was hoping someone might recognize the central device in the first picture, the X inside a box. Its one I have never seen before and I was hoping someone might use it to at least point me in the right direction. Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34527 Posts	Posted 11/30/2016 06:36 am Found it! Your coin is a quarto from the House of Savoy. It was minted under Louis (1440 to 1465 AD) and can be attributed as Roberts 9712. You are right that the diamond-shaped cross is different from most, but it is the four letters on the rev (in between the lines) that are diagnostic for this coin. They are gothic letters spelling F E R T. This is the so-called "enigmatic word fert". One potential translation is that fert is short for the German word fertif, which means Be Prepared. Great pick-up and thanks for posting! As your coin is from the 1400s, I'm going to recommend to the mods that this post get moved over to the ancients/medieval section of CCF. "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 Report this Post to the Staff
Rdwarrior Valued Member United States 266 Posts	Posted 11/30/2016 2:59 pm I was thinking 1600s, only off by 2 00 years. Thanks Spence for your time and knowledge Report this Post to the Staff
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