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Valued Member
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Hi! I need help for more identification of this coin. Denar, maybe Otto III and maybe from Worms. Any better ideas? Weigth 1.27 gram. Diameter 18.5 mm.   |
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Very interesting. Hopefully someone will be able to properly identify this for you.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Letters I think I see on the church side are M (12:00) C (3:00) V (9:00), so Magdeburg could be another option, though I think that letter at 3:00 looks more like a C than a G. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces373973.htmlOn cross side, I think we can see RE O , so it would have been struck before he became emperor? |
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Thank you for your response.  |
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"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."
-----King Adz
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Hi! Thank you for your answers. There are similars also from Meinz and Speier. But it's hard to figure out which. My pictures from Danneberg     |
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Pillar of the Community
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WCN sells many of these Otto denars (probably over 100 per year). THis one matches the objects in the corner of the cross, and it has a cross in the center of the church (rather than a pellet). They have it as Worms, Dbg 1914, but there is very little of the legend to try and compare. https://wcn.pl/archive/174030 |
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Super detective work @tdz. I think that you have nailed it. In looking at Dannenberg III, I see this description of the design elements for #1914:
Obv: Cross with bullet in angles 1, 3, and 4. Wedge and half-moon in angle #2.
Rev: Wooden church as before, but with a small cross.
As far as inscriptions go, they appear to be something like OTTOA and WORMACAI, although coins with fully-struck inscriptions were evidently not available to Dannenberg.
And @wall, it looks like your first instincts well spot-on.
"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."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
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That confirms that what I thought was a V is part of a W, and the other letters were on target. So the legend starts around 9:00, and we can see W(partial) O (very faint) M A(partial) C .
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@Spence and @tdziemia great! Thank you!
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