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Two undidentified coins. Both are silver. Diameter 20 and 20,5 mm. The first one seems to show an animal. I think they might be from Sweden. I've searched catalogs of brakteats and found none similar. Any ideas?   |
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#2 looks like a griffon, which is on some bracteates of Pomerania and Rostock, places that I think were occupied by Sweden several times. Could #1 be similar to this one from the German state of Brunswick? https://wcn.pl/archive/304657?q=brakteat+&page=4(Maybe moderators could move this to the Ancients/Medievals area) Edited by tdziemia
11/15/2020 07:37 am
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(Maybe moderators could move this to the Ancients/Medievals area)  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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I hope someone else can respond to your question about an online catalog. Some places (not catalogs) where you can look: 1. WCN (Warszawskie Centrum Numizmatyczne) has an archive of most coins they have sold in the last 15 years. But the search field only understands Polish. For "Germany bracteate" you would search Niemcy brakteat. For "Pomerania bracteate," you would search Pomorze brakteat. http://www.wcn.pl2. MA-shops is an online market with many coin vendors, I think based in Germany. Some CCF members (myself included) use the search feature here to do research (Pomerania = Pommern in German). http://www.MA-shops.comGood luck! |
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Do you have recommendations on sites with good catalogs? I personally prefer to use use paper catalogs. For Austria, I use Probst and for Germany I use Bahrfeldt. I note that you can find some pretty decent digital catalogs at academia.edu, such as this one by Ruckser and Rodrigues: https://www.academia.edu/30495373/S...s_of_Austria"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Cannot help you much, except that I am pretty sure they are not Swedish. But you have already got some leads in other directions. But / Välkommen to CCF, from a fellow Swede! |
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Thanks for all advices. You've been very helpful. This site was very impressing. http://www.wcn.plI searched 111 pages with brakteats but didn't find my coins. |
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I just turned my computer upside down, and realize that the top photo of #2 looks like it could also be a lion facing left with a tail curled over its back (if we guess that four appendages in the same direction are legs, not feathers). Even if not a perfect match, the best possibility I see so far is a bracteate of Brunswick. Here is another from the WCN archive, different from the earlier link, so there are multiple types: https://wcn.pl/archive/301733?q=bra...+lew+&page=3 There is also at least one type of Polish brakteate with a lion facing left, but the lion is not so normal in Polish heraldry, more common for Germany, Bohemia, Silesia, etc: https://wcn.pl/archive/71_0128?q=br...+lew+&page=7 Edited by tdziemia
11/21/2020 12:53 pm
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Posted 11/15/2020 07:50 am
