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 Posted 12/27/2010  6:16 pm  Show Profile   Check vermontensium's eBay Listings Check vermontensium's eCrater Listings Bookmark this reply Add vermontensium to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
1520 Dei Gratia Rex...My guess would be of English or Scottish origin but I'm really no expert on these, merely a guess.
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 Posted 12/27/2010  6:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
A lot of followers of the Roman Empire had legends in Latin. How about the name that precedes "Dei Gratia Rex", Ludovicus Primus, or Louie the First. That should place it somewhere in France.
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Nope, not French either. French L1 lived in 700's-800's. Hungarian L1 lived in 1300's.

Here's what I found among old threads. Your coin is the same as item "d".
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Thanks I saw that thread just a few minutes ago also.. It makes sense as there ia a stamped '1967' at the right foot. Thanks.

I don't suppose this has much value?
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 Posted 12/27/2010  6:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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... there is a stamped '1967' at the right foot.

I saw it too but then I decided that should be 1067, although that wouldn't make much sense with St.John either!
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Oh, the value? I doubt there's silver in it, so a buck or two?
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As Bart said in the older thread, it's a replica of a Bohemian joachimsthaler - that's Saint Joachim, not St John. The joachimsthaler was the ancestor of the thaler, from which the "dollar" ultimately derives it's name. They were the first large, crown-sized silver coins to be struck in Europe in large quantity. Original thalers tended to look more like this example on CoinArchives.

The "LUDOVICUS PRIMUS" so named is Louis II of Hungary, who was known as Louis I in Bohemia.
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