Another 1698 (from Austria. 3 Kreuzer coin)

William III silver sixpence, 1697. England/Great Britain/United Kingdom.

1696 French jeton, Parties Casuelles. "Utile damnum" refers to the need sometimes to do harm for the good of all --as in trimming away the lower branches on a tree trunk. How exactly this refers to fiscal policy I'm not sure.

Another 1696
L.G.L. below Louis XIV bust Made by Lazarus Gotleib Lauffer in Nurenburg Germany

Thus begins the transition from early Russian Milled coinage, back in time now to the famous "Men Wearing Wigs" period of world history"

What?? Don't tell me the did not date earlier coins. Man, your breaking my heart.

You might see something when 1655 rolls around....

We actually passed that point some time ago.

I think a strong case can be made that Peter II's French-style tresses (see my avatar coin) were not his natural hair.

Ditto for the Leopold (the Hogmouth) coins posted by worldcoinguy. That 1697 sixpence posted by ElleKitty is probably another.

Frank's 1696 jeton is for sure.

I agree completely. In fact, now that i think about it, Peter III's pony tail, and those Big hairdoos of Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine II, must have all been falsies. Not sure on Catherine I. She seems a bit less vanity concerned than the others.

The Russians were a bit late to the Baroque Party, but they sure did catch up fast ( due to Peter I's influence )

LOL. Once we get through the 1660's (going back), we might get to see a few jetons with Louis XIV's REAL hair, when he was a child, pre-wig. Ditto for Louis XIII before him, and then ... headlong into the hirsute Renaissance!! No wigs, just lots of hair!

so whos got 1695 then?

I just realized I have a 1692 Liard from the Spanish Netherlands to contribute. A nice one too.
Oh, and a 1678 Netherlands 6S Silver Ship Shilling from West Friesland. Marianne will like it.

How could I have forgotten about these?

Too many coins for an old geezer to remember them all?

That was an interesting year for West Friesland coinage, thanks to the wily Dirk Bosch. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Lovely avatar, btw.

The 1678 West Friesland 6S is a fairly scarce date, however I think I paid too much for it, believing it was VF or better.
NGC called it F12, and they are probably correct. So it's a bittersweet coin. I'll sell it one day, but until I need the money, it stays.

The photos turned out pretty good, you'll see...

My new avatar was obviously inspired by yours Marianne, and is from a very nice French silver medal that I won on eBay from a lovely woman in Belgium.

Enough of my jibber jabber, who has the 1695?

Damn..I have a 1692 here but we're only down to '95??

Awww...

Have a Brit from 1696 whilst we're waiting!

Onto 1695!

The great coin famine of 1695!
and so ends the line? It cant be!

Don't give up just yet. This thread seems to have hit dry spots before (one lasted for well over a month) and then resumed.

Well, ive now thoroughly researched the matter in a most academic manner, and can conclude that indeed, coins were minted during the year 1695!

A search of fleabay reveals no less than 24 be-wigged, overfed, and inbread monarchs whos likeness was engraved in 1695, upon a disk of shiny silver!! All available to the highest bidder!!!

I shall therefore have patience, but i thinks its going to be a long century........

I know the first one was a mistake but I can't edit the post from here becaue I'm at a really stupid computer

I don't know if the hang around here but on omnicoin vajaho, LawrenceChard, Ian (2) all have coins listed.

That's the trouble I've always had with computers. They insist on doing what I tell them to do and not what I want them to do. It's very frustrating.

Maybe they will come to the rescue here.

Wow, this thread is either really hot, or really not. Someone out there has to have a lovely 1695 they want to show off!

Oh wow, double posting is pretty easy to do, too! >< Sorry.

Even an ugly 1695 will do. As long as we can read the date...

Does the date have to be in English? I have some Mughal dated coins; do they qualify?

Anything dated. We have already had some Egyptian and other coins.

The dating won't matter, provided the poster can verify/validate/explain to us what it says in numbers!!

very nice idea actually for the collection. and I'm waiting for the 1566 hope its gonna come down.

Sorry guys for the delay in posting the 1695 coin. I was trying to figure out a way to reduce the size of the picture using photoshop! Whew! got it finally.

I am posting two coins here. As per the conversion calender between AH (hizri calender) and the AD (Anno Domini or roman calender), the year 1695 is shared halfway between AH 1106 and AH 1107. So I got out my mughal coins and found specimens for both.

The first coin is -
Silver Rupee
Aurangzeb Alamgir
KM#300.36
Badr e munir
Wt 11.4 gms
Islamabad Mint
dated AH 1106 (AD 1695)

The dates on both coins are given in Arabic.

and the second coin is -
Silver Rupee
Aurangzeb Alamgir
KM#300.39
Badr e munir
Wt 11.4 gms
Itawah Mint
dated AH 1107 (AD 1695)

PS. The image size was still working out more than 100kb hence the second post!

I like how you think.
A beautiful presentation for 1695, thanks for getting us through that difficult date porthos.

And here's another nice 1695 from Austria from vajaho.....

Next time send me a message, now I am late with this image...



I am sorry for not checking on you guys frequently.

I will have 1692, then 1672, 1640, etc. Latest is 1526. But I am leaving soon for a vacation...

An easy way to reduce the size is to email the picture to yourself, selecting the quality to suit your needs. Or join Photobucket (it is free) and have really large pics.

This is also free and you don't have to join anything.

http://www.tinypic.com/

et voila! a 1695 40 shillings Scots

1694 N (Montpellier) 1/4 écu of Louis XIV. (I've gotten lots of mileage out of this coin on CP!!!)

Wigs!

One more 1694 (as it's my 2nd oldest dated coin, I may not get to post another).

William and Mary farthing:

What's that thing coming out of his nose?

Ewww...

Looks like a little ring to me ... maybe William had to keep Mary in line sometimes (or is that William with the ring in his nose?)

Definitely a tapeworm.

Hey Guys, c'mon,

Everybody pulls out the 1693 gun. Now. I only have a day, before leaving with my wonderful 1692!

Here's my coin for 1693

6 Kreuzer
Austria
Leopold I (1657-1705)
Dated 1693
KM 82

Premature 1692 post moved to keep things chronological. See, I am a team player!

Anything from the 17th and 18th century in mintstate is so strange in my opinion. Imagine this is basically someones pay for the week, they stuck it in their coin purse, and then what......how do these survive like this?! Jeesh, lol.

1693 jeton of Louis XIV, with an artist painting the king's portrait. No shortage of ego there.