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I think that just about nails down that jeton once and for all, Constanius. Thanks again.

Great jeton Ian. Angers is where I spent my sophomore year abroad, so I have collected a few old jetons of the city. I'll post them as soon as I photo them. (St Maurice's cathedral--the spires on your jeton--has Gregorian chant on Sunday mornings, to go with its old stained glass. Enough to make even a marginal Catholic like myself attend mass!)

I've never seen one of these --pretty nifty! There are lots of Napoleon III 10 and 20 centimes pieces that have been stamped with advertising slogans, or which have had Napoleon transformed into a Prussian with spiked helmet to blame him (rightly so) for the debacle of the 1870 war. But I've never seen Victoria hidden inside one...

Awesome coat and cap, Mr. Sparrow. A true captain.

Also found on the floor almost beneath the machine: Something that didn't look and feel quite like a zincoln, and which proved to be a Spain 2 EuroCent piece.

1560 jeton, which really should be attributed to the very short-lived François II who reigned only this year, pretty much, before shuffling off the mortal coil.

1564 jeton of Charles IX, Chambre des Comptes. I hope you all like the little bit of verdigris in an awkward place on the Janus figure on the obverse... [later edit: I seem to have missed the previous 3 posts or so, um, sorry... I'll go look for a 1560 now...]

That was terrible, Constanius. My first thought was --Is she being hit by the moving train? It kind of looks like that.

Very slim pickins here, too. I think more people are scoping out the bins.

omg that man is nekkid. Every time I see DaVinci's Vitruvian Man I can't help thinking of all the cadavers he flayed to study human musculature. That's real nudity, when you're not even wearing your skin anymore...

That Elizabeth I sixpence is just beautiful, beautiful.

I'm with Homer. A truly awesome collection.

I love it!! A date without a date!! And that's a very high quality double tournois for XVI century. And a nice cud/die crack, too.

Awesome coins Constanius. I confess to loving holey coins. It's as though the hole makes the coin more relaxed and familiar, more historical and less precious. I have a number of holed Peace dollars and a few other common-date holed 19th century crowns (French and British) that sometimes I like to carry around in my pocket. None is worth more than $15-$20 or so. I sometimes scope FleaBay for a cheap holey Seated Dollar. Haven't found just what I want yet.

Re: holes in French bank notes: I remember when I was in France being surprised by the practice in banks of pinning together sheaves of notes. Not stapling (this was the 80's) but using a pin...

1589 Hans Krauwinkel jeton for the French market; Henri IV had just come to the throne, thus the "H."

Speaking of which, she recently came out with her own line of "clothing" Link to "celebtv" gossip site If you check the site you learn that the crowd rather disliked the show. Some styles were topless with "heart-shaped pasties" covering nipples. I suggest she design the new 10 cent piece.

I'm hoping other CP people will make add more items to this thread to make it LONGER.

1592 jeton for the mayor of Tours (note the tours--towers--in the coat of arms).

1596. A rather badly struck jeton from a common series made for Henri IV around this date.

Another Henri IV jeton: Pax Martis Opus = Peace, the work [result] of War.

1601 French jeton (Henri IV): Hoc Foedere Lilia Florent "With this alliance, the lilies bloom." Not sure which alliance it refers to, but a very common motto which will appear on many future jetons. Subducendis Rationibus = for the settling of accounts.

Beautiful jeton, Ian. And yes, you can see on the reverse that the UFO was knocking branches off trees before Peronne swatted it.

Ian, you sent me surrying to the web to find just where one would find Sainte Madeleine en la Cité in Paris. Turns out it was pulled down in the Revoultion. Used to be in Rue de la Juiverie, now Rue de la Cité. A former synagogue converted in the XII century into a church, also "the seat of the oldest of Parisian confraternities --la grande confrérie de Notre Dame [...] which had the archbishop for its abbot and the president of Parliament for its dean" (pp 281-282 in Walks in Paris by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare). Here is the link: Walks in Paris

It should be pissing with rain.