German State Coin........which State?

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KLD Pillar of the Community Australia 1079 Posts	Posted 08/16/2006 12:47 am Hi, Can anyone help me identify which state this one comes from? It is a 1/24th Thaler with mintmark A. Thanks Kindly, Lars Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16837 Posts	Posted 08/16/2006 08:59 am Hi Lars! Take pity on us poor dial-uppers - how big is that picture? It takes ages to load up, and crashes before it's done! Unless Photobucket's having a busy day... I saw enough of it to notice it looks very similar to the monogram on the Prussian 1/48th thaler, 1764-1770 (KM# 295). It might be KM#296 (1764-1786), which is un-illustrated. Certainly the "A" mintmark fits for Prussia. 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
KLD Pillar of the Community Australia 1079 Posts	Posted 08/17/2006 05:28 am Hi there old friend, Thankyou for your help. I must say I have never seen a 1/48th thaler. BTW I am on dial up aswell and would only upload pictures under 1mb. This one was only approx 400KB, so maybe it was photobucket. Thanks for the info, really do appreciate it. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16837 Posts	Posted 08/17/2006 08:21 am Never seen one? Now you have. After I posted, I went and checked the albums to see if I actually had any of the series - and I do! I have a 1/24th as well, but it's in pretty crummy, unscannable condition. 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
KLD Pillar of the Community Australia 1079 Posts	Posted 08/18/2006 05:30 am Hey thats pretty cool. your right now I have. That would have to be the smallest denomination surely. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16837 Posts	Posted 08/18/2006 8:53 pm The monetary system in Prussia, as near as I can work out, was 12 pfennig to the groschen, 24 groschen to the thaler, making the 1/48th a "half-groschen" or 6 pfennig coin. The "groschen" denominations were re-badged as fractions of the thaler in the mid-1700's. Even this coin wasn't the smallest Prussian "silver" coin, though it was the smallest "fractional thaler". 1 pfennig coins were struck in both billon (low grade silver) and copper, simultaneously, throughout the 1700's. Prussia was quite large for a German state, and the two types of coins may have been intended for circulating in different parts of the country, though they were all struck in Berlin. 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
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