#1: I have two theories on this one. If it weighs 5.3 grams (3/16 of an ounce), it's a 3-dram weight, and the thing that looks like a "3" is really a
dram symbol. If it weighs nowhere near that, then it's a token, and the "3" is really a "3".
#2: Prussian, as has been identified.
#3: Tricky. With the large six-spoked wheel, my first though was "German states", despite the similarity of the portrait to British king George III. The wheel features on the coinage of
Mainz, and a couple of other cities (eg. Erfurt, Osnabruck) but I can't find a match for the portrait, or the name. It may be a token or evasion, as Peter said.
#4: "Pure copper preferable to paper" appears on many Canadian tokens. I can read "...AVIGAT..." on the other side, so this is one of the "Trade & Navigation" types. The Canadian ones are normally dated 1812 or 1813. If you can clearly read "1838" below the seated figure, that makes this one Charleton #203, Breton #967. This token has a note in my old Charleton catalogue, "Attributed to British Guiana", and indeed, if you look up "Guiana" in the 1800's Krause, there it is, KM# Tn3. So what you really have here is a 1 stiver token from British Guiana.
#5: Dominican Republic 1¢, as previously reported. I have to add, that this is the most heavily circulated Dominican coin I have ever seen.
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
Edited by Sap
04/01/2008 06:58 am
Posted 03/31/2008 2:16 pm
