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Pillar of the Community
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These are the scans I tried yesterday, resized. The first coin, second row appears to be impressed rather than struck. Token perhaps. And the Belgian centime is missing the final E in Belgique. Not in my Krause. All help gratefully received.   Identified (finally!) - Moved to Tokens forum since they're the most significant items - Sap |
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#1: China, the Qian Long emperor (1735-1796), Hunan Province mintmark. If you're wondering which way is the "right way up", rotate the bottom pic 90 degrees clockwise. #2: China, the Kang Xi emperor (1662-1723), Board of Revenue mint, Beijing. #3: not sure why the E is missing; I'd suspect a filled die. I don;t know how common errors are in this series, but I would assume that quality control for Occupied Territories coinage wasn't a high priority for the Nazis. #4: It appears to read "Stadt Cosveldt". "Stadt" is German for "city"; Coesfeld is a city in northwestern Germany, near the Dutch border. The identity is confirmed by the coat of arms (a bull's head). This isn't a coin, but a "notgeld token", issued by the city authorities after confidence in the German governemnt collapsed after WWI. My notgeld checklist lists metal tokens from Coesfeld POW camps, but nothing from the city itself. #5: No idea, except that "mitad" is Spanish for "half", and googling "mitad token" comes up with lots of references to "mitad tokens" from Latin America. 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
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If it's real, #5 is a winner...
From Latin American Tokens 2nd edition:
Colombia, Bolivar Department
Rulau Bol 15 ND Bronze 24mm VF $300
(All in Germanic script): A. Ma. / MERLANO. Rv:(Normal block letters): MITAD.
(Eklund 1247; Weyl 3378; Sweeny A3)
Both pieces(Bol 14+Bol 15) are very rare. The Merlano family businesses were in Crategena and Morroa in the 19th century. Struck before 1887.
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DCH, the size is correct, and this coin was in my father's collection. He died 42 years ago, so the chances are that it's good. Sap, thanks again for your help. I'd like to learn more about Asian coins and scripts. Can you recommend any start-up reference books?
Thanks,
BoB
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United States
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#4 looks like it may be from the German states era (before 1871} but the photos look like they show the same side, just mirror images. The reverse should show a denomination and a date.
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Could #4 be a brockage? KM#5 2 Pfennig 1713?
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Colombia
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Wow! #5 is definitely a winner.
This token was probably struck by Scovill Manufacturing Co, in Waterbury, for Antonio Maria Merlano, a Colombian businessman, in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Beautiful, very rare and valuable.
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Quiquelo, many thanks. I've owned this for over 45 years and only recently managed to find any information.
Although Rulau lists it @ $300 in VF, in all that time I've never seen one for sale.
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