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Help With 1771 2 Groschen Coin

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 Posted 05/09/2011  8:09 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add BigAppleBucky to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
This is an image of the obverse:


Help-With-1771-2-Groschen-Coin
The reverse has simply four lines:
ZWEY
GROSCHEN (That last N seems correct, but it could be I or even D)
1771
*B*

Am I correct in surmising it is from Prussian occupied Silesia?

I'll post later why I'm interested, but what would be the approximate value of a fairly worn, but readible (except that one letter) coin?

Thanks
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 Posted 05/10/2011  07:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Prussian Silesia it is, indeed. The Silesian spelling of "groschen" was, apparently, "groschel"; your last letter is an "L".

As for value, I'm afraid I've only got a 2002 edition catalogue; back then, this coin was worth $6 in VG, $12 in Fine.
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 Posted 05/11/2011  11:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BigAppleBucky to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Danke.

I'd written more than that question, but for some reason I messed up my original posting and needed to hurry to get that in.

The coin was included in my grandfather's coin collection in a box kept under my mother's bed the last 25 years. When I helped her move last month she gave it to me and I did an inventory for fun and for the sake of my brother. There were abot 1,000 items in all, including a Civil War token with a rarity of R-9.

I'm glad I found this site. I've certainly bookmarked it.
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