Need COIN dating help Strassbourg coin

ajaan · July 13, 2014 12:40PM

Strassbourg Vierier, approx. date?

Zohar · July 13, 2014 1:36PM

I read the title and for a minute I thought that I was on another forum

Lovely coin, really!

ajaan · July 13, 2014 10:05PM

<< I read the title and for a minute I thought that I was on another forum >>

No, my wife wouldn't like that.

If it helps, the coin is Saurmasche-1967

brg5658 · July 13, 2014 11:03PM

<< 

<< I read the title and for a minute I thought that I was on another forum >>

No, my wife wouldn't like that.

If it helps, the coin is Saurmasche-1967 >>

I was going to suggest match.com -- but, I guess you mean a different kind of "dating".

TwoKopeiki · July 14, 2014 2:12AM

I think it's about time we carbon-dated Ajaan. Something tells me he's older than Aethelred

Nap · July 14, 2014 3:31AM

Certainly it dates from before the Thirty Years' War. 15th-16th century.

ajaan · July 14, 2014 3:48AM

Nap, THANK YOU. That narrow's it down a bit.

Tibor · July 14, 2014 7:09AM

With the long cross design that is present I would place the approximate
time near the 1370's forward. The long cross design was also used in Germany
for their Groschens. Some believe that the design (long cross) prevented
clipping of the coinage. I hope this was helpful.

P.S. The coin is in remarkable condition.

ajaan · July 14, 2014 8:05AM

<< P.S. The coin is in remarkable condition. >>

PCGS AU55

My GERMAN ancestors were from this area. The coin is going into my "box of 20".

MacCrimmon · July 14, 2014 10:15AM

<< 

<< P.S. The coin is in remarkable condition. >>

PCGS AU55

My GERMAN ancestors were from this area. The coin is going into my "box of 20". >>

Well, thank goodness my German forefathers were at least 50k north of yours.....

ajaan · July 14, 2014 11:47AM

I also have Scottish ancestors Mac. hmm . . .

MacCrimmon · July 14, 2014 12:46PM

<< I also have Scottish ancestors Mac. hmm . . . >>

DorkGirl · July 14, 2014 1:33PM

Swampboy · July 14, 2014 2:27PM

Lovely coin.
I might have to add that to my ever growing want list.

My wife has ancestors from Straßburg and I have ancestors from Strasbourg.

I can almost imagine a worshipper in Strasbourg Cathedral (begun in the eleventh century) handling that coin. I took this image of it last month during a three day visit to Alsace.

LochNESS · July 14, 2014 3:35PM

That cathedral is more evidence that we achieved some of our greatest art before the industrial age.

MacCrimmon · July 14, 2014 10:02PM

<< That cathedral is more evidence that we achieved some of our greatest art before the industrial age. >>

The marvel is that it took 252 years to complete, and no one LOST THE BLUEPRINTS in that time.

Stone mason, after stone mason; father to son, father to son. I wonder if they started speeding the build process as the decades went by???

LochNESS · July 15, 2014 12:56AM

Great job security. When you consider how many generations were born and bred into the construction, one imagines an entire subculture evolving. Anthropologist's playground I bet.

SYRACUSIAN · July 21, 2014 8:02AM

The coin is truly in remarkable condition, with a very simple and pleasant design. And this is coming from an allergic to medieval coins.

No one complimented shroom on his photography? How easily this forum forgets.....

It took you a while, but you finally got there, something that can't be said for so many of us, especially now that smartphones produce better images than a simple camera, provided of course that one owns a smartphone and not a 19 euro mobile phone such as myself.

LochNESS · July 22, 2014 4:29AM

Nice photos, shroom!

Need COIN dating help Strassbourg coin

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