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 Posted 03/01/2007  7:18 pm Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this topic Add GO to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hey All

I have scoured the web for info on this coin and I need your help

I believe the coin is German and I have nothing else to go on at the moment

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated

Also I am new to the online coin community and I am trying to expand my collection. Any sellers out there that have coins from rarer countries? I have coins from over 200 different countries/nation states & provinces and I am looking for other resources besides e-bay to expand my collection.

Thanks!




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Well, I give up. I looked for a while and found nothing. Can you actually tell what the exact letters are? I can't quite make them out, even when I blow up the photos.

Hopefully Sap will be along before too long. He may know this coin immediately.
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 Posted 03/01/2007  8:51 pm  Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GO to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
As best as I can tell the letters are

HANNSKRAVWINCKH _

3 Crowns in a circle

reverse side

GO_ _SRHICHBLIBTHWICK

possibly a sphere with cross on top in the center of the coin
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OK, what you have here is a "jeton", not a coin. I found it by Googling the only part of the inscription that I thought could read for sure: REICH BLIBT.

This is a specimen of the Nuremberg series of jetons, from the 1500's. Jetons were used on counting boards, kind of an economic abacus needed to calculate financial transactions using the bizarre and complicated mediaeval European monetary systems. Later they were sold and used as card counters and gaming tokens. The inscriptions on your specimen are supposed to read:

Obverse: three crowns and three fleur-de-lys in a circle, HANNS KRAVWINKEL. Hans Krauwinkel II was a master of the family jeton factory in Nuremberg from 1586 to 1635.

Reverse: Imperial Orb in trilobe shape, GOTES REICH BLIBT EWICK, which is mediaeval German for "God's Kingdom is Eternal".

This particular type is apparently one of the more common ones, but I don't have a proper catalogue for jetons to give you a value.

Reference: This Website by Jim Furner.
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 Posted 03/02/2007  01:10 am  Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GO to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sap you are amazing. This coin has been bugging me for a few months now. I appreciate the quick research you did. I have a ton of coins but this one is now my oldest I believe.

Thanks again!
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 Posted 03/08/2007  5:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add scoutjim99 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Okay I have one similar and Know I too know what mine is
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