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thryan9 Valued Member United States 220 Posts	Posted 03/06/2015 2:23 pm I believe this is a one sided coin, but I'm not certain. No date or words, so I don't know where to begin. Any ideas? 15mm. Report this Post to the Staff

Cointosser77 Valued Member United Kingdom 195 Posts	Posted 03/10/2015 6:02 pm It looks a bit familiar, looking at the bear (could be a lion too not sure) in coat of arms I first thought it might be Swiss or canton of Swiss, it has the 3 leafs ontop which I think is something associated with religion. best guess is European or South American or some island state.... Report this Post to the Staff
Canacoins Pillar of the Community Canada 955 Posts	Posted 03/17/2015 02:40 am Also looks to be an error coin. I see two area`s of rim beads. upper left and bottom ,just right of center. you just see the outline of rim beads just below that area.Two planchets, one strike. Might also explain the blank side and oblong shape.Connect the two area`s and to me it looks fairly round. Both indicate a machine struck coin. Helps to determine age if nothing else. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 03/17/2015 08:05 am It's not an error, and it's not machine-struck. It's a uniface hammered pfennig from mediaeval Germany. I refrained from posting earlier because I don't really have the skill or resources to identify it any narrower than that - there were hundreds of mediaeval German states in what is now Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland. I finally found it by running a Google image search for "pfennig uniface arms". Click here and scroll all the way down to the bottom, coin #2357. It's a pfennig from the city of Meissen, undated but apparently dating from between the assimilation of the Margraviate of Meissen into Saxony in 1423 and the splitting of Saxony into Saxe-Thuringen and Saxe-Meissen in 1485. 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
thryan9 Valued Member United States 220 Posts	Posted 03/17/2015 3:06 pm Awesome, Sap! This was a real puzzler. Thank you! Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34409 Posts	Posted 05/21/2020 8:42 pm Sorry to reanimate this as a zombie thread, but I was excited to find it and thought that I could close the loop completely. Yes @sap is correct. This is a Pfennig of Saxony/Meissen. The clover leaf (and half-rose, which is worn off of this coin) indicate the mint as Colditz. Other mintmarks on similar coins include a crescent moon between annulets (Zwickau), a cross with four equal arms (Freiberg), and a double-armed cross (also Colditz). I believe that they all can be dated to 1465 to 1474 AD and this example is attributed as Krug 1570. Here is a similar example that I just picked up: "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34409 Posts	Posted 05/22/2020 08:40 am Having now read through the appropriate section of my Krug in detail, I thought that I would document the mintmarks (there are also a variety of widths to the shields): Freiberg: Cross (regular size, small, or very small) Gotha: 5 petal rose Colditz: Double cross (regular size or small) Clover leaf plus half-rose Leipzig: Star (regular size or big) Zwickau: Crescent moon (alone, with annulets on either side, or with annulet following) Clover leaf In light of this new information, I'm now thinking that @thryan9's coin actually was minted in Zwickau--there is no trace of a half-rose as there is with mine. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
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