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Nice one @tdz, despite the slightly different sizes of your pics. ;) Here is a 3 Groszy from the German Duchy of Prussia dated 1539 AD. Looks like Albert has his COVID beard.    "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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I remember seeing you post that one before ... That really is an unusual and striking rendering of the beard (note that by my 1540 coin, there was no curly stuff).
Not sure if @princetane is still checking in, but mid-1500s appear to have been the era of fairly long beards. We saw this on Sigismund II of Poland in 1560s, and Albrecht has a long one already in the 1530s.
Sigismund I of Poland is shown as cleanshaven on all his coins, the latest portrait being 1540. However, there is a painting of him dating to 1546 with a squared-off beard like Albrecht's.
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Yes I am lurking, the 1530s was the era of the beard. Looking at Henry VIII and people such as Jacques Cartier.
Its a transistion between the long hair and beret look of the 1520s and the full on curly hair and beard look of the 1540s and 1550s (Somerset, Philip II, and the first real lace collars).
As we head back, the more Renaissance hippy hair comes through, now in '39 its still fairly short and restricted to the head.
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Interesting coat of arms on that 1539 Elbing coin of yours, @tdziemia, with two crosses - wonder how come? One was not enough to show the devotion of the Elbingers? Actually, the coat of arms on the 1540 Spanish Netherlands coin is even more interesting: At first glance a mishmash of 16 smaller arms, but looking more carefully, the top left quadruple is the same as the lower right quadruple, and the top right and lower left quadruples are also the same. So a double doubling, in fact  . (Not to mention the doubling of the castle and lion in the top left/lower right quadruples themselves.) |
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As we head back, the more Renaissance hippy hair comes through @princetaine, I love that "pageboy" look on kings I have a few examples from the 1530s coming up. And indeed as you say, we can chart the popularity of the beard with Henry VIII's coinage. I think he starts beardless? Quote:
Interesting coat of arms on that 1539 Elbing coin..., with two crosses - wonder how come? I don't know why there are two @erafjel. However, both Gdansk and nearby Elbing use this stacked double cross in their arms. In the case of Elbing, the lower one is incuse on a checkered background. For both cities, the shape of the crosses is derived from their having been fiefs of the Teutonic knights (who used this type of cross, though not on their coins) in the 14th and 15th centuries, coming under Polish control only in the second half of the 1400s, but with quite a bit of autonomy (including the right to coin). Edited by tdziemia
05/16/2021 4:58 pm
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Another Hungarian Denar, but this one is dated 1538 AD:   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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1538 Poland groschen Gdansk mint. Not sure what happened to this coin, but I suspect some kind of harsh cleaning. Many of the underlying details are pretty sharp, but the surface is terrible.   Edited by tdziemia
05/17/2021 12:42 pm
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1537 Duchy of Lorraine Teston. The engraver has an interesting way with letters like H (easily cofused with M) and R (looking much like numeral 4).   Edited by tdziemia
05/18/2021 08:04 am
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1537 Hungarian Denar   |
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Yes @keith12m, this is the Denar decade for me too:   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
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-----King Adz
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Guess those last two posts make a nice tuppence 1537 is a good year in my collection, so I will add this Annengroschen from the city of Brunswick / Braunschweig:   Edited by tdziemia
05/18/2021 8:27 pm
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1536 Poland another 3 groschen (trojak) from the Elbing mint  |
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Nice one @tdz. I've got another Denar for today--one of three dated 1536 AD that I picked up when I bought up someone's collection of these things about 20(!) years ago.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
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-----King Adz
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Wasn't able to access my reply to forum yesterday.   |
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1535 Poland 1 groschen/grosz Elbing mint Like @spence's 1530s Hungary denars, this is one of the few early Poland coins that's been in my collection over 20 years (Jean Elsen Auction 57, March 1999).   Edited by tdziemia
05/20/2021 08:39 am
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