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Another day, another Schilling...   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Another day, another Schilling..  This will be my fate, too, about 100 years from now |
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1757 -- Kingdom of Great Britain, 6 pence:   Edited by pepactonius
10/10/2020 12:09 am
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I've also got a 1757 sixpence, but it isn't as nice:  |
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Numis Rob, I take your 6d and put a hole in it.   A bit less wear, but the hole makes up for it. Out of all seriousness, 1757 and 1758 was the last era of silver coin issuing in Great Britain for a while (At this time Ireland was still nominally independent with its own government, but pretty much all the land and elite were British). Shillings and Sixpences were issued in generous numbers, but no halfcrowns or crowns had been issued since 1751. |
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My last Hamburgian Schilling for at least a couple days! Looking forward to seeing yours in a few months @tdz.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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My last Hamburgian Schilling I think it's even correct to call them Hamburger schillings though it sounds kinda funny. Mine will be from Poland, Lithuania and Livonia (rather than Hamburg), roughly every third day in the middle third of the 1600s. |
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1756 -- Republic of United Netherlands / Utrecht, 1 duit:   |
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1756 -- Kingdom of Spain, 1/2 escudo:   |
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I'm not sure whether the gold, or the condition of that duit is more impressive! Poland-Lithuania COmmonwealth, Ort = 18 groschen, Leipzig mint. First in a series of contributions through the rest of the 1750s (different denominations in silver and copper) which bear Augustus III's portrait obverse, and the combined arms of Saxony/Poland-Lithuania on the reverse, a device we will see for the next 58 years on coins of Saxony and Poland.   Edited by tdziemia
10/11/2020 06:49 am
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1756 B - Brandenburg (Prussia) - AR 6 Gröscher (1/4 Thaler) Friedrich II, Breslau (Wroclaw) mint In Poland this denomination was historically known as a "szóstak" = 6 groszy. This is the "large" (~25mm, ~3.1g) type struck 1755-1756; in the same year (1756) the diameter was reduced to ~23-24mm, and the weight to ~2.8-2.9g, with similar but modified obverse and reverse designs. The "small" type of 1756 was struck at several mints but all have a C cartouche (Cleves) mintmark regardless of their actual striking mint. Note: Diameters are approximate; these coins are open collar strikes and the planchets "flattened" when struck, so the design is a more reliable indicator of type than the diameter.   Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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A resident of Hamburg is indeed a "Hamburger" In Latin the coins of Hamburg had "Hamburgensis", i.e. "of/from Hamburg", as in "MONETA NOVA HAMBURGENSIS" Along the same lines, when reading older historical texts translated from Latin sources, you will see "Hamburgensian" as a demonym. I'm not sure that's much better than "Hamburger" though Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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1755 -- Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenberg, 1.5 pfennig:   |
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1755 -- POlish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Kingdom of Poland, 18 groschen:   |
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From @paralyse yesterday: Quote:
1756 B - Brandenburg (Prussia) - AR 6 Gröscher (1/4 Thaler) ...
In Poland this denomination was historically known as a "szóstak" = 6 groszy. So, today I have a 1755 szostak from the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth, Leipzig mint. The 18 groschen coin shown by @pep is a thick, half dollar sized coin; this one is a thin and quarter sized:   Edited by tdziemia
10/12/2020 06:53 am
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