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Kã¶ln Coin?

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 Posted 05/31/2014  05:38 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add coinat to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Can anyone say more about this coin? Kã¶ln-Coin?
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 Posted 05/31/2014  09:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add philadelphian to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Welcome!
Before anyone asks how coinat knows this is a coin of Cologne (Köln), coins from that city in the High Middle Ages had a monogram on the reverse of the letters of S-COLONIA-A, for Sancta Colonia Agrippinensis.
The jumble of letters in the monogram seem to take a form close to this in the late 12th and early 13th centuries:

Kã¶ln-Coin?
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The square figure at the top of the pic is the start of the obverse legend (the side with the cross moline). The letters I'm pretty sure of are ***NADVS**. My best guess would be BERNADVS ER, but there were no Archbishops of Cologne by the name of Bernard.
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Still unknown. Has anyone any new information about the coin? Thanks.
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maybe you can find a book here:
http://www.medievalcoinage.com/pdfbooks/
or
http://www.medievalcoinage.com/pdfb...pdfbooks.htm
or send the pictures to talk@medievalcoinage.com
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