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Thread Title: Osnabruck taler - 1698 sede vacante
Created On Sunday October 22, 2006 1:46 PM


worldcoinguy
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Sunday October 22, 2006 1:46 PM

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An interesting sede vacante taler from the Kuenker auction (DAV-5674). I suspect it was cleaned at some point (when looking at it with a loop), but I am still thrilled to own it.



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wildjag
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Sunday October 22, 2006 4:28 PM

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Brent, very nice looking coin thaler. Everything that old has been cleaned at least once, but the details are still nice. My uncle was thinking of bidding on that, so I am glad he didn't cause he would have bid against you.

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Cool...and it has a Chronogram on the reverse.

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Sunday October 22, 2006 5:27 PM

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Alright--I'll bite, what is a chronogram?


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Isn't a chronogram where words are used as numbers? or something like that.

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Sunday October 22, 2006 5:47 PM

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The large letters, when re-ordered give the date of the coin in Roman numerals.




In this case - MDCLXVVVVVVIIIIIIII=1698

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Sunday October 22, 2006 9:38 PM

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That coin is wonderful.

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This was part 2 of my submission that just came back from across the street. I am thrilled to see the sede vacante on the label. The picture stinks since I do not have good lighting here.



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Totally cool! I love examples like these, especially the AU grades.

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