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1808 Hungarian Coronation Medal 21.5mm Link I really don't know much about this piece.

1808 La Reine de Naples, France Laskey CXL Bramsen 772 d'Essling 2543 22mm Link In 1808 and later in 1813 there were a series of medal mint visitation medals produced featuring Napoleon's sisters, wife and step-daughter. I've called the series "The Ladies". 1808 La Princesse Pauline, France Laskey CXXXIX Bramsen 770 d'Essling 2548 22mm Link 22mm Link 1808 La princesse Pauline visite la Monnaie des médailles, France Bramsen 771 d'Essling 1219 22mm Link Pauline was Napoleon's favorite sister though she drove him nuts with her crazy behavior. But she was loyal until the end, gave him her jewels and offered to join him in exile. If you examine the two examples closely they were clearly struck from two different dies. 1808 Hortense, Reine de Hollande, France Bramsen 767 d'Essling 2438 22mm Link Hortense was Napoleon's step-daughter and later his sister-in-law. Though British propaganda tried to make their relationship into an incestuous one there is no evidence that he ever regarded her as anything except his daughter. 1808 La Reine Hortense, France Bramsen 769 Laskey CXLI Edwards 394 d'Essling 1218 22mm Link 22mm Link On the occasion of the Queen's visit to the medal mint. 1808 La princesse Elisa visite la Monnaie des médailles, France Bramsen 776 Edwards 396 d'Essling 1221 23mm Link While she was a princess of France Napoleon only saw fit to give sister Elisa a Grand Duchy. She was furious.

Wonderful stuff, keep 'em coming!

1800 1/12 Thaler, Brunswick-Luneburg. 21mm Link

Beautiful examples. Are they aluminum? And nicely researched. It's easy to forget that Hitler was an elected official.

1790 1 Pfennig, Frankfurt. 21mm

For me cheap is less than $20. Most of the coins I collect fall into that category because I'm more than happy to give a well circulated coin a new home. The medals need to be less than $150 for me to think they're cheap. It used to be that $150 would buy me 8-10 medals and the dealer would toss another in just so he didn't have to take it home. I think that for a while there couldn't have been more than a couple dozen serious Napoleonic medal collectors anywhere. Ah the good old days...

1815 2 Grote, Oldenburg 12mm

1809 1/6 Thaler, Westphalia. Another duplicate frankly from a lot and not an upgrade. The neon green doesn't appear to be PVC damage under a loupe but I've been wrong before.

Thanks Marvin. I was very surprised to see how nice that 1818 was. It was just buried in a lot that I was after to fill some holes.

Thanks, I like it too but I'm probably going to find it a new home. You want it Tiff? Also in today: 1806 1/48 Thaler, Saxony. This was one I was actually bidding on believe it or not... as well as this one: 1810 1/6 Thaler, Saxony.

1818 1/12 Thaler, Saxony. Not a year I normally collect but it came in a lot.

1808 20 Kreuzer, Austria. From the Vienna mint. 1927 5 cents, United States.

Yeah, it has to be just about the ugliest eagle ever!

1808 10 Soldi, Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. Milan mint, mintage 174,948. Hard to believe, but an upgrade. I'm still looking...

1791 12 Heller, Aachen.

1798 1 Kopek, Russia. Fills a hole at least.

Today's mail had this upgrade from a filler: 1814 Thaler, Prussia.

Thanks Art, I appreciate it. Of course the period I collect virtually everything in AU costs a small fortune. Another came in today as well: 1802 Comptoir commercial, France. Bramsen 240 Julius 1121-1122 d'Essling 2060 Milan - 374 A jeton de presence for an organization in Paris. An X is roughly 1802-1803.

1808 3 Kreuzer, Wurzburg. Only my second coin from this country. Neither is particularly good but heck, I'm cheap!

1 ½ Pfennig, Saxe - Weimar - Eisenach. The first of this denomination and country I've collected. Well, I've got others from SWE but I meant the first 1 ½ pfennig from there...

I'm looking for help on this one. I picked it up for about $5 so I can't lose. I think the language is Danish but it could be Norwegian I suppose. I'm fairly certain it's not Swedish but I'll probably be wrong... Obverse: arbeidsom flittig. sparsom abdru. tro og god giver mennesket velsignelse og fornoieligt brod alle livets 18 dage. 01. Reverse: for gode handlingir og landet gavnlig flid af lieutenant h. v. buchvald I know I've probably spelled a couple things wrong. There's at least 2 words with an o and 2 dots (umlaut?) and the ab of abdru is a conjoined letter. There are several letters that aren't as clear as you could hope. Any help as to its purpose and a translation however rough would be appreciated!

Very nice

As always, holding up the cheap coin collector's end here... 1814 1/24 Thaler, Hessen-Cassel and another I collected a while back with extremely strong interior detail and almost smooth, yet porous rims.

I love cheap copper! 1805 ¼ Skilling, Sweden.