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

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 Posted 08/16/2006  12:47 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add KLD to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi,

Can anyone help me identify which state this one comes from?

It is a 1/24th Thaler with mintmark A.
German-State-Coin........which-State?


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 Posted 08/16/2006  08:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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 Posted 08/17/2006  05:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KLD to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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.

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German-State-Coin........which-State? German-State-Coin........which-State?
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.
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 Posted 08/18/2006  05:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KLD to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hey thats pretty cool. your right now I have. That would have to be the smallest denomination surely.
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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.
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