BioProfessor Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 Hello, I'm new to the forum. I spend half the year in the Netherlands and I run across some pretty strange coins. Most I can figure out but there are some that I just can't find anything on. Here are two such coins. Any direction on where to look for information or links to places would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Daryl The coin with VIII on the reverse is copper and 21mm. The Louis coin is brass and 19mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottO Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 the top one could possibly be a spanish piece, and is that 1599 date? probably a colonial issue, hard to pin down exactly. bottom one is a french jetton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioProfessor Posted July 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 The 1599 date would fit the time frame of other finds in the field. It has always been polder (pasture) and to our knowledge shows that way on all the maps back to 17th century. I've found a lot of these thin copper coins but never one with this type writing. Lots of French Orb Jettons but nothing close to this. We were thinking maybe Belgium but Spain could also fit as we have found other Spanish silver coins on the field. I just can't find a place to start on this one. I am also positive this is a Jetton and there were so many over so many years, it is tough. It is most likely French but I'm having trouble finding this portrait of the French Louis and of this "number" Louis. Very few have him facing right and the portrait is just not the same as I am finding elsewhere. I know that some Jettons struck for Marie and her demise had trees on the reverse but I cannot find any from Louis - French or otherwise - that have trees. And no mention of King is odd. Gotta love the Jettons. Thanks for the help. I need it on these two. Daryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyg Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 The top coin is an 8 Pfennig from Coesfeld (Germany), should be dated between 1609 and 1713 The other, I suspect a Jetton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioProfessor Posted July 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 You're good andyg. Thanks!! Daryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 The jetton is German-made, one of many different ones appearing after the 1793 execution of Louis XVI. Maker is Johann Christian Reich (1758-1840) of Nuremburg; the letters on the reverse right (REC PFE) are for rechenpfennig, the German word for a counter or jetton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constanius Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 This is very similar to Hennin #269 & #270 plate 26, except on those the spelling is LOUIS & DE FRANCE instead of LOVIS & FR.. He dates those for 31 Dec. 1791. LINK TO HENNIN go to page#763, Plate 26, image# 269-270 I think the tree is the "Tree of Liberty" and Louis was by then just "King of The French" not "King of France & Navarre" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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