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  1. That is simply awesome, Pat. Congrats! A terrific find!!
  2. I remember looking up William John Taylor in Holborn on old lists... He's listed as being there around the middle of the 19th century, as an engraver. I certainly didn't pay the equivalent of AU $94.50, though. I have no idea how rare or common it may be.
  3. Hey! I like the French 5 centimes Revolutionary coinage! http://www.lefranc.net/monnaie,cinq-centimes-dupr-grand-module,115.html
  4. Hi Tomtom -- I'm afraid that for the French coins you're right. None has any silver value and they're all high mintages.
  5. When I was buying French jetons that showed bees --including variants of this one-- on eBay, a friend warned me that there was a bidder on eBay who would try to buy anything with bees on it (coins, dishes, silverware, etc etc). He/she would drive up the price by bidding high.
  6. You can get some idea of market value by looking for how much your coins (the specific date, mint and condition) have sold on eBay in the past.
  7. Its not a mule; the 1903 issue has a different reverse than the 1904 and 1905.
  8. French 20 franc gold pieces, starting in 1803 and continuing through 1914, have always weighed 6.45 grams at 90% gold, so that gives the 5.81 grams listed as gold content on the page you give the link to.
  9. Your medal is certainly real and most likely dates from the 18th century; it's just not struck in silver. A trial is a first copy struck in a cheaper metal so the engraver can check how the design looks (etc.) before deciding to go on to making final copies in bronze or silver. Trials were often done in lead, although if yours is light, it may be a mixture of other metals. People collect trials; yours is certainly interesting; it may be worth somewhat more than you think, to the right collector.
  10. The coin certainly looks real --it's the right color, the strike is solid, it's dented the way a 90% gold coin dents... If the weight is right, I wouldn't worry.
  11. (can't help remarking --it takes some chutzpah, Monsieur l'Empereur Napoléon, to have a medal made commemorating your "entry" into Moscow, considering you only got to stay a night or two before the Russians burned it down just to spite you, and you and your army had to skedaddle back west, which was another not-so-glorious event. So really all you got was an "entry" into Moscow, right?)
  12. Used with scales to weigh coins. The pistole was a gold coin, usually worth 2 écus, minted in Spain or Italy. Molière has characters who talk about pistoles rather than écus; they circulated in France in the 17th century --thus the portrait of Louis XIV, similar to what you find on real coins of the era:
  13. Check out this link to a Google Books online copy, page 252 of Münzen- und Medaillen-Sammlung in der Marienburg, edited by Emil Bahrfeldt. Your medal is there, listed in silver... https://books.google.com/books?id=Du81AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=ex+armata+non+hostiliter+pressa&source=bl&ots=KvxVX6Vgqg&sig=bRDJmyPy0AJZN0WMTxy3Y6MUEc8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KpW9VIvLIoiWgwTO5YAI&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ex%20armata%20non%20hostiliter%20pressa&f=false (later edit: Your copy of the medal looks as if it were struck in something other than silver, perhaps as a trial...)
  14. Wonderful, wonderful. Love the responses you got on worldofcoins.eu. I have learned some very useful German.
  15. I absolutely love these Spanish Netherlands jetons, their design, the historical references, the lettering, the iconography... Many seem to survive in high quality. If I ever win the lottery I will happily spend the rest of my days collecting every last one I can get my hands on.
  16. Hi peruna --this doesn't look French, but a larger, brighter photo would really help.
  17. I had a paper route in the '70s, too! People gave me whatever change they had sitting around for years --Columbian Expo halves, Peace dollars, Merc dimes, winged eagle cents, Buffalo nickels. There was still a large amount of pre-1964 silver circulating. These days I look for "old" Jeff nickels --it's not too rare to find a 1940's one. They're not worth much, but they're cool.
  18. I always carry a big silver piece or two in the watch pocket of my jeans. All of them are somewhat worn. Choices: 1890 Mexico 8 reales 1820 France 5 francs 1921 US $1 Peace dollar 1835 France 5 francs
  19. Definitely Henri III (reign 1574-1589), since the double tournois was newly introduced in 1575, and Henri IV's title is usually styled REX FR ET NAV (Navarre), whereas Henri III was R DE FRAN ET POL (Poland). I've seen different mints corresponding to mintmark X --either Amiens or Villefranche de Rouergue. The date would have been on reverse where your coin is clipped. There are usually mint/engraver marks on the reverse under the 2 fleurs-de-lis. I can't make out what yours is.
  20. Google is the emblematist's dream. The wheel was associated with Fortuna in Roman times, but I can't find any pix of statues to show it. But lots of engravings from later on seem to indicate that the French, odd though they be, weren't alone: Carmina Burana manuscript, 13th c. --the artist may well have been French here, though! German, end of 15th c. I can't find the origin of this Tarot card, but I'm guessing German / Northern Europe... [later edit: I had forgotten about Roman coins...:]
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