elverno
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Such brilliant coins! I can only imagine what your relationship with the postman must be, you must be so happy to see him.
There is talk about cutting postal service back to three days a week. I can barely wait from Saturday to Monday as it is!
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1808 1 Pfenning, Westphalia.
An early piece for Westphalia that probably used a reverse die already at the Clausthal mint.
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c.1790 ½ Penny Token, Great Britain.
D&H 71a - Warwickshire, Birmingham, Biggs'
And another from the box...
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1791 ½ Penny Token, Great Britain.
D&H 2 - Lanarkshire, Glasgow
Every once in a while I find boxes of projects I've started and then promptly forgotten. In this case as in several others it's a small box of Conders that either needed new pics or to be put onsite at all. None of them were ever put on Omnicoin.
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1794 ½ Penny Token, Great Britain.
D&H 370b - Middlesex, Masonic
This token was never put on Omnicoin because the pictures were so awful. I haven't a clue about the countermark.
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1789 ½ Penny Token, Ireland.
Although this is technically an update it was one of the few remaining pieces left on my site that was still a scanned image instead of photographed. This has vastly improved the color and size of the shots.
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Good question. The rose is described as the "Rose de Lippe" and represented Lippe-Detmold for centuries. But I don't have an answer for that. Maybe a Tudor daughter that married into the Lippe line?
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Looks like the lion is handy with his fists, but I don't think the Marquess of Queensberry would have approved of sticking your tongue out at your opponent.
Plus he (she?) appears to be wearing a tube top and a mini skirt into the ring!
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Relatively cheap for a rare Pidcock's token.....
And it's in BU condition! (BU = Beat Up)
Nice! My kind of BU!
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I didn't even know they had silver coinage - I've only seen the coppers!
Yeah, they issued 1/4, 1/2, 1 and 2 guilder silver in 1809; total mintage under 250k for the 4 types. Also they did some crazy countermarking in the same basic time period. The countermarked coins and the 3 bit pieces chopped from those coins are incredibly rare and way beyond my price range!
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1805 1 Kreuzer, Hesse-Darmstadt.
A filler that is barely identifiable. I've picked up a few of these over time, I put them up anyways but I have no illusions about them.
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1809 ¼ Guilder, Essequebo & Demarary.
Don't expect better pics on my site. This thing is definitely a filler, quite scarce but waiting for a better cousin.
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1808 3 Kreuzer, Wurzburg.
I discovered while putting this on my site that there were two varieties of 3 Kreuzer issued by Wurzburg in 1808. One was billon and the other silver. Interesting enough the billon is mentioned as being 21mm in size and no mention of the silver size. So one could infer that the smaller coins must be the silver ones. Yet Krause says the reverse should have the value and G. W. L. M.
So do I have two undersize billon pieces or is my Krause totally whacked (scientific numismatic term)? 4th Edition BTW, p.495.
Elverno - cheap but fun!
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1794 ½ Penny Token, Great Britain.
D&H 20 - Kent, Faversham
I collected this about 20 years ago and it was one of the first coins on my site. I'm systematically going through my Conders looking for these and updating them. Most I'm not showing here because it's just new pictures. But others, like this one, were never put on Omnicoin because of the poor quality of the images.