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Valued Member
Sweden
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Alright, I reckon it's time for those 8 Reales coins now..
Edited by Ngdawa
05/31/2011 3:33 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Netherlands
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I was waiting for something different.. Have enough VOC duit left..
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
My next coin is 1702; I'm patient.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Wurzburg, 1748 4 Kreuzer or Batzen. I have to admit not one of my best coins :)  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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No 1747? Here is a Grano, from Malta  Edited by andyg
06/02/2011 6:50 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
I like how the minters put the date around the star like that-any more coins where that has been done?
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 Australia
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I'm getting more and more gaps in my date series. My next dates are 1745, 1741, 1735, 1734, 1733, 1731... But I do have a 1746. It's another Dutch duit, and not in the best of condition... VOC (Netherlands Indies), Utrecht. Only just bought it at the coin show two weeks ago.  Quote:
I like how the minters put the date around the star like that-any more coins where that has been done? The coin I posted for 1752 from Liege on the previous page employs a similar tactic, with the date numerals in the four quadrants of the cross formed by the coats of arms. It seems to have been the fashionable thing to do in the late 1600s-mid 1700s; there are some English crowns of William and Mary from the late 1600s that employ the same effect; see here's a Christies sale of an example of the 1692 "2 over inverted 2" type. It must have been confusing for the poor die-cutter in a date like "1692" to figure out which way up the "2" should be going! 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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United Kingdom
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@Sap - Haven't yet run out of dates by my choices are getting somewhat limited! Here is a 1745... UK, ½ Crown 1745 LIMA The Lima denotes this coin was made from silver captured by the English from Spain in the Americas.  |
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United States
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1744 Action off Toulon Apparently this battle generated a lot of controversy regarding the actions of the commanders. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate the pamphlet that reportedly accompanied this piece which explained the significance of A, B, C, etc.  |
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 United States
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Ironically I have the exact same 1745 as andyg except in shilling format. This coin is sort of rough, possibly sea salvaged or metal detected. (I missed that huge 1745 aperture while I was mowing the lawn.)   |
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United States
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Here's the 1744 I bought on ebay awhile back, in a moment of pre-CCF wildly uneducated enthusiasm. It has been exposed to the critics in another thread. Feel free to consider it a 'coin-like object' because that's all it seems to be.    Edited by mysilveryears
06/03/2011 4:45 pm
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United Kingdom
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@Mysilveryears
>>Feel free to consider it a 'coin-like object' because that's all it seems to be
Would you like to tell the uneducated (i.e. me) what's wrong with it?
I fear I would have fallen victim too!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate the pamphlet that reportedly accompanied this piece which explained the significance of A, B, C, etc. They were playing hangman. |
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United States
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Found this on Stacks site...
GREAT BRITAIN. 1744 Action off Toulon Medal. Pinchbeck Brass, 37.8mm. MI CLXIII:4.
Obv. British officer (suggested to be Admiral Mathews or
Lescock) hanging from gallows, victorious British fleet in background amid
sunken French and Spanish ships and swimming sailors. Rev. British force lands
before fortified port (Dunkirk or Brest) with British lion attacking French
coq. This somewhat mysterious medal recalls the Admiral Vernon series,
suggesting a political cartoon or satire in medallic form. Mathews and Lescock
defeated their enemies but then squabbled with each other rather than pursuing
the fleeing foe, losing the chance for total annihilation and facing trial with
Mathews expelled from the service; neither officer was actually hanged
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United States
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Would you like to tell the uneducated (i.e. me) what's wrong with it?
I fear I would have fallen victim too! andyg et.al.: https://goccf.com/t/82694 |
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