Posted 08/16/2007 08:37 am
Austro-Hungarian Empire (listed under "Austria" in the Krause catalogue), Breslau mint in Austrian Silesia (now known as Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland). The "FN" is the mintmaster's intials, a fellow by the name of Franz Nowak. KM# 141, CV $6 in VG.
Austrian coinage in the early 1700's was very decentralised, with the dozen or so mint-cities in the empire each doing their own thing, making coins with little attempt at uniform designs. This coin doesn't have a "mintmark" as such, the mint is attributed by the combination of the design, coat of arms and the final abbreviation in the legend: SIL for Silesia.
Austrian coinage in the early 1700's was very decentralised, with the dozen or so mint-cities in the empire each doing their own thing, making coins with little attempt at uniform designs. This coin doesn't have a "mintmark" as such, the mint is attributed by the combination of the design, coat of arms and the final abbreviation in the legend: SIL for Silesia.
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