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Thank you. Now, I got my memories in order again.

Ah, yes. Thank you, scottishmoney. Wasn't it in the 1800s that they placed the Hanover shield on some of their coins as well?

I was looking for this thread! Nice coins you've added there. That last one is amazing. Allow me a question tho. The four shields on the back are twice for England and Scotland combined, once for Ireland and then there is one shield that is french. Is it part of a claim to the French throne?

Are you trying to proselytize me, oh source of the hammered ones?

Nice additions there, Clive! I can see why you like hammered ones.

Nice ones! I like the 3 cent piece for its roman numerals. Cuban and Portuguese coins have this feature as well. Maybe that could be a nice theme for a collection; Modern coins with roman numerals for their denomination. But I am going off topic. The seated liberty is quite an awkward engraving isn't it? The face looks really alien.

This half crown is beautiful... what toning. Looking forward to more of your coins!

Well, I just wrote whatever came to my mind. Wish I knew more (i. e. anything) about it. Keep the nice ones coming!

The online translations rock! Well, I think he means, that by arming himself with the Reich he only wants to protect the people. The lower portion of the coin reads: Das Reich erhalten den 16 November 1797. That means: The Reich (Empire) received on the 16th November 1797. I guess there is a single context behind those two lines. The syntax is horrible tho. It could of course also mean all the things the person on the coin has around him. The glorious history of the holy roman empire (Roman helmet) and the past before that (Greek helmet, the rod of Asklepios, a Greek shield, a Lyre... The rest I cannot recognize). Maybe they had managed to create a connection between their family (or the Reich) and ancient Rome (through the Holy Roman Empire)/ Greece (Don't know how... Maybe over Aeneas, who fled to Rome. I think this connection had been used by the French at some point.) . I don't really know my way around Preussen and how they used history and mythology at the time.

Beautiful medal. The sentence on the reverse is a bit weird syntactically. He says "Nur Euch zu schützen will ich mit diesem mich rüsten". "Only you to protect i want with this arm me". would be the word for word translation. Does he mean the "Reich" with "with this"?

Well, if you look to the right of the portrait you will see why it was probably cleaned. I think this had some kind of aggressive oxidation. This has also left its mark on the face. The front part has been damaged slightly. I guess that someone cleaned it and then put it in a lot. Maybe because he/she didn't like the result.

I got my first Wheat cent in a lot today. It has suffered badly because of harsh cleaning, but I like it.

These two were removed from my girlfriend's wallet. She was in Germany for a (sadly short) visit and had these two beauties along. Of course she agreed on me removing the coins. I didn't nick them.

Ha! At last I got a sixpence from Fiji. And for quite a little money as well. This is probably one of my favorite coin designs... even tho I have no idea why. Along with it came this:

Well, you're right. Let's solve this when we reach it. Beautiful photograph of the last coin you presented by the way, Vfox.