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Pillar of the Community
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  A small (~11mm) European medieval silver coin. Anyone knows what it is? Will give the answer later. Hope I can tempt some to get interested in that field.
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Could it be from Venice? Looks like the Venice lion.
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Pillar of the Community
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It's not a lion, quite the opposite.  And no, it's not from Venice. But glad that you not only looked but took a stab at it. |
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Actually I should have said Lamb not Lion. My only other guess would be some type of Papal coin.
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Pillar of the Community
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Actually I should have said Lamb not Lion. Lamb, yes - 'Agnus Dei' ie Lamb of God. While from a very Christian (as the reverse indicates) Kingdom (as the image of the king on the obverse indicates) it's not from the Italian region (including papal). |
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I guess that is a Paschal Lamb on the reverse.
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You got my curiosity going with this coin. Not having any references of medieval coinage I've searched the web with no results. So I'mm itching to find out where it came from.
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Pillar of the Community
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At least one persons curiosity has been awakened. It is a Parvus from Charles I Robert, King of Hungary (1307-1342) minted in 1329 Obverse: King enthroned facing. Reverse: +.M.R[EG]IS KARVLI around 'Agnus Dei' Reference: Rethy Plate XXIII,17 / Huszar#471 His Denars have 'REGIS HVNGARIE' on the reverse, which would have been too easy.  |
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Hungary was one of the first places I checked. Can you recommend a good reference book on Medieval coinage?
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Pillar of the Community
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The two references I gave are the best I know for Hungarian coinage, namely
Ladislaus Rethy "Corpus Nummorum Hungariae" & Lajos Huszar "Münzkatalog Ungarn"
Don't know if there is a newer/better reference out there.
In the end the Fitzwilliam Museum series will probably become the standard work on medieval coinage I suppose.
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Hungary was one of the first places I checked. Can you recommend a good reference book on Medieval coinage? Looking for Bela III just found the following downloadable pdf http://www.numismatas.com/Forum/Pdf...0Hungary.pdfDoesn't have the Parvus in it but on the bottom of page 66 is the other coin I posted of Charles I Robert, the Denar with the ostrich head. |
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Pillar of the Community
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 that's an awesome pdf med, thanks for that. Edited by chrsmat71
11/19/2014 10:25 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Hey Chris did you ever find out where your medieval Lead? medal came from? Remember that, it was you right?
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Pillar of the Community
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ummmmmmmmm...I don't think so. I had a fake or fantasy (i know now) byzantine coin a couple years ago....is that what you mean?
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