Help With Crowned 2 Headed Eagle Coins | Austrian

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pordy New Member United States 18 Posts	Posted 04/26/2009 11:24 pm Hi folks- I have 9 coins dated 1893-1918 with roughly the same design: crowned 2 headed spread wing eagle, center shield, with a sword in left foot and a chalice (?) in right foot. A bit like what you'd find on similar vintage Finnish coins, or various German States coins. Besides a bead around the rim, this is the only markings on that side. The other side gives denomination with a variety of surrounds- oak wreath, scrolls, etc, the year, but no writings. The attached example (sorry for the poor resolution) is ~19 mm and ~copper. 10 & 20 demonination coins are slightly bigger, ~nickel with a reeded edge. I'm stumped! Thanks Patrick I say roughly because there are two shield designs. Image: unknown1.jpg 2.97 KB Image: unknown2.jpg 3.18 KB Edited by Sap 05/02/2009 01:54 am Report this Post to the Staff

xshift Pillar of the Community United States 2669 Posts	Posted 04/26/2009 11:27 pm These are Austria coins.. the one pictured is the denomination 2 Heller. Report this Post to the Staff
xshift Pillar of the Community United States 2669 Posts	Posted 04/26/2009 11:31 pm If you go here: http://(131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed /countries/Austria.php and scroll down slightly, he has pictures of the 10 and 20 Heller that should match your other denominations. I like these coins; the design is sort of similar to Germany. When they are high in grade they really look cool Welcome to CCF, by the way Report this Post to the Staff
pordy New Member United States 18 Posts	Posted 04/26/2009 11:44 pm Bingo! Many many thanks. Yeah the earlier 20 Heller is sharp. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 04/27/2009 01:51 am There are several European countries that used a double-headed eagle; the Holy Roman/Austrian and Russian empires, and some of the coins issued for their territories (such as Russian Finland and Poland respectively) are the most commonly encountered, but there are a couple of others, such as Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. But the "two shield designs" you describe give these ones away as Austrian. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
sdexcid Valued Member Canada 50 Posts	Posted 04/30/2009 11:12 pm cool looking Report this Post to the Staff
Rusiancoin New Member Russian Federation 28 Posts	Posted 05/01/2009 11:51 am A lot of Russian coins mostly olds have the approximatly same eagle You can see one of the modern Late I will post ancient Report this Post to the Staff
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