Odd Denominations On Coins - The List

Yes, the double-barred cross (or Patriarchal cross) is the symbol of state power of Hungary around from early 1300's. When René of Anjou (1409-1480) inherited Duchy of Lorraine, he thought he was the king in Hungary as well (but not), and he started using the white double-barred cross in Duchy of Lorraine. A few centuries later, it was referred to in the Western heraldic literature as the Lorraine cross.

It certainly does.

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A couple that seem worthy of posting... 1/83.5 and 1/250.5
From the mid-1760s to the end of statehood in 1795, the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth began denominating their coins is both the local currency (zloty, with 1 zl = 4 groschen), and the Cologne mark. Initially this resulted in nice round numbers (1 zloty = 4 groschen = 1/80 mark), but with some debasement in the 1780s, it became more messy.

Here is a 1787 1 zloty silver coin, with the denominations 4 Gr and 1/83.5 Mark on the reverse:



Here is a 1790 10 grosze billon coin also denominated as 1/250.5 Mark on the reverse:

I think the original organizer of this thread had decided to count all those "X one fine mark" comments as weights rather than denominations - the way some 19th and 20th century coins would mention that they contained X grams (or other units, e.g. in Russia) of pure silver.

They're certainly neat, though!

Very neat! I think I found this type and its double version (26 quattrini) while looking through an Italian coin database a few months ago, but forgot to mention it in the thread.

I don't have the time at the moment to read all 14 pages, so not sure if you have the - August 1923 German Notgeld (Hamburg) ½ Million Mark on the list.

Edit to add: Yep, it is on the list as 500,000 Million Marks..

Looking back on this thread, I was shocked to see that the last "roundup" of denominations was in 2017!

Given how comprehensive that list was, it's hard to imagine that there could be more, but ...

I recently found a denomination of a coin from the Duchy of Urbino which is "due terzi da sedicine" which translates to two thirds of sixteen, or 10 2/3. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2776670

Now ... you can ask "two thirds of sixteen WHAT?" and the plot thickens further, because the answer is ... (drum roll ... ) quattrini!!
So the face value on the coin was 10 2/3 quattrini

So, folks who know early Italian coinage think "Ah, wasn't a quattrino equal to 4 denari? So that would also make this coin a 42 2/3 denari coin which is also missing from the list? (kind of like saying a "quarter" is actually 25 cents).

But wait! There's more! By the 1500s in central Italy where this coin was made, the currency system was no longer denaro-soldo-lira, but was migrating to quattrino-baiocco-scudo. There is evidence that in Urbino at this time there were 18 sedicine (or 288 quattrini) to a scudo.
when this coin was made, so that would make it a 1/27 scudo.

Take your pick (10 2/3 or 1/27) ... it gets added to the list one way or the other.