Levinson Attribution On Pommerania Half Groshen From 1494

Just to close the loop on this thread, I have emailed my question to Robert A. Levinson (the author of the book "The Early Dated Coins of Europe 1234-1500"), and he had this to say:

"I have looked at the coin and my suspicion I think is confirmed. The obverse die has been engraved with the title before the name of the Duke. This is not uncommon where there are many dies to a particular coin. The 1494 is the most common of the schillings so there were probably a number of dies. However I have never seen your variety before and as such it is definitely a rare variety and my congratulations to you."

I recognize that the Coin Community forum can't help me with all of my coin-related questions, but I hope to have better success with some of my other questions as well as add to the overall knowledge base here. Thanks!

I have an I-320 that is listed in Bob's book . It also has different legend on
both obverse and reverse. It for the most part matches up with Bob's
description. On Pg. 15 of his book he explains on how the coins are
catalogued.

To spence, Do you collect Early Dated coins? I have for several years.
Please contact me on this topic.

On the Obv.: DUX-BUGSLAUS-STETTIN
Rev.: MON-ETAN- OVA-D-AM9& (Gothic4)

At this time I do not have Pics.
What other pre-1500 dated coins do you have?

I have over 160 different coins that are listed in Bob's book. Since it is all about the date of the coin that is
where I look first. A nice clear date is important, then the rest of the coin. Most but not all of them are
F-Vf . At this time, I can not provide pics, I hope to do so later. The dates start with the 1374 Aachen piece
and go forward. At this time I only have 10 gold pieces but hope to add in the future. Let me know if I can
be of any help. It is so rare to find someone with similar interests, that is one reason for my enthusiasm.
Have a good day and hope you find some neat additions!! Louie

Also for louie - do you happen to have anything from 1493? The "how far back can we go" thread had been stuck there for months (and at 1494 for more months previously).
[EDIT: Though if you do, you might want to wait a day or two while the 1494 is posted (see below).]

While we're at it, spence might post the OP coin there as well (they're accepting 1494 while there's no 1493 posted yet).


...On my own end, I'm very interested in early dated coins, and I'd love to collect them, but to be honest I've never really seen any on sale, and I probably wouldn't have that kind of money anyway. The three oldest dated coins in my collection are from 1517, 1521 and 1597 (and the 1597 isn't even an AD date, but a conversion from another calendar).

It's literally named "How Far Back Can We Go", and it's in the Main Coin Forum. (There are actually three of them - you need the First Edition, though you'd probably be able to participate in the Second Edition too.)

The "walking back by decade" thread should also benefit from a second edition, but I'm not sure who would start it (nobody's seen Medieval in about a year; I've no idea what happened to that extremely - if briefly - active member, except that if they were known to be dead it would've said so on the account).
There's all sorts of dated coins in antiquity, as long as you don't care what calendar they're in; there's been a thread for dated coins of the first century AD, and most of the years had been successfully posted on it. It's the medieval period that's a problem (especially early medieval, before the Arabic dated coins pick up).


On the "help some" thing...
I'm sure there are a lot of online dealers, even nearby, who would ship stuff to me if I only pay enough. (Especially since the big bunch of cheap early 16th century coins is Hungarian and Lithuanian, which are both presumably much easier to get close to my country than close to the USA.)
The problem is "if I pay enough" thing. I've pretty much never bought any coins online, because I can't figure out how to pay (I don't have a credit card, for one); and even if payment problems weren't that serious, there's the question of budget (I paid $15 each for the 1517 and 1521 coins, which is really bordering on the upper end of my budget, and I'd prefer even less if I'm intending to buy more than one or two coins for that price).
So it pretty much all comes down to "still looking" (my current quest is to get an example of my country's oldest dated coin - which is the same type as my 1597 coin except the date is 1596).