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Hendricksbubba New Member United States 6 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 12:15 pm I have this coin and would like to know its value and about how old it is or isn't. Report this Post to the Staff

philadelphian Pillar of the Community United States 3253 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 1:04 pm Welcome! A better picture would go a long way, as there seem to be some remnant letters of a legend around the central cross pattée in a quadrilobe. And of course, a pic of the other side! I'm hoping the other side has a pair of crossed keys... Edited by philadelphian 06/19/2014 1:27 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16850 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 5:48 pm The Knights Templar did not own territory, and therefore did not issue coins of their own. Many mediaeval coins had crosses of this kind on them; better pics of both sides might let us find out more precisely which type you have. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Hendricksbubba New Member United States 6 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 6:09 pm The other side does have two crossed keys. Will post picture ASAP Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 6:25 pm something like this? http://www.vaticancoins.com/coin/68...gnon_Patard/ Report this Post to the Staff
Hendricksbubba New Member United States 6 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 6:29 pm Yes exactly like that.... Report this Post to the Staff
Hendricksbubba New Member United States 6 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 6:35 pm For some reason I can't add photo cause I'm on my iPhone? Report this Post to the Staff
philadelphian Pillar of the Community United States 3253 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 6:51 pm Go under Reply to Topic and use Upload Image, but you may have to use the Image Optimizer and decrease the image quality to get it way under 100 MB; more like under 40. When you go to "download this image" just touch it and hold, then Save Image. It will go to your Photos. Petrus has stolen my thunder, but this is very likely a patard from the Papal State in France known as the Comtat Venaissin, which surrounds Avignon, but from two or three hundred years after the time when Avignon housed a second Pope competing with the Pope in Rome. The legend on the other side of the coin may still bear the name of Pope Urban VIII. Report this Post to the Staff
Hendricksbubba New Member United States 6 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 7:19 pm So this is a papal coin, seems to be Urban VIII? It's does have two crossed keys on reverse. Report this Post to the Staff
philadelphian Pillar of the Community United States 3253 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 10:22 pm I'll sign off on the ID when I can see some piece of the legend VRBANVS VIII PONT MAX. Report this Post to the Staff
Hendricksbubba New Member United States 6 Posts	Posted 06/20/2014 02:20 am I've tried several times to upload picture, won't let me after I resize it.... It does have some type of writing around edge of coin. If this is an Urban VIII is it worth anything? Report this Post to the Staff
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