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Mystery Coin - F R ? (Id: 17th Century Reckheim Liard)

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 Posted 09/12/2021  06:07 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add CooperT to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello, my son found this coin in a collection handed down to him by his grandfather. We haven't been able to find anything like it online despite the very distinctive F R, so wondering if it might be a toy. Would greatly appreciate any feedback
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I posted this better image to help identify the coin.
It's clear that there is a crown over a coat of arms having what some call a rampant lion as well has having three diagonal cubes.
Someone should be able to ID this piece.

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You will have a better chance of an ID if you post the diameter and weight as well as pics.
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The coin is 24-25 mm in diameter. I don't have scales that can accurately measure the weight, but my kitchen scale says 2g (it is likely less).
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The surrounding legend doesn't seem to match, so it might be a different variant, but the devices match perfectly, so it's probably the same guy: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces187126.html

Reckheim (?), Ferdinand d'Aspremont-Lynden (?), liard. I couldn't find a lot of pictures of those, so I can't tell if it could be anything else.
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Wow! That must be it! Thank you so much january1may & everyone else who contributed - my son is totally hooked on coin collecting now! &
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It is indeed the indicated coin, link given by january1may, but on the contrary of what's on numista, this coin was not issued by the prince-bishopry of Liege, but by its small neighbour, the county of Reckheim. This county, containing about 6 villages in nowadays belgian limburg, was part of the Holy Roman Empire and was not part of the prince-bishopry of Liege. The counts earned a lot of money issuing coins which were about look-a-likes of coins of the neighbouring countries (Liege, the Spanish Netherlands), but which were lighter in weight. Officially they were only legal tender in Reckheim, but many users of Liege or the Spanish netherlands didn't see the difference, so they circulated in those countries too, to the anger of the rulers of those countries.
Many varieties exist.
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@bart, thanks for the recent IDs of the two coins from Reckheim and Gronsveld.

I'm a collector of early "Low Countries" coins, but these two places are outside my experience. Your comments remind me that there is always more to learn!
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to identify low countries copper coins I often use this Dutch website: http://duiten.nl/
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