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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Memorial medal for Johann IX Philipp von Walderdorff.

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,691 ✭✭✭✭✭

    From the amount of wear it may have been used as a coin (at silver value) even though it is a medal.

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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @291fifth said:
    From the amount of wear it may have been used as a coin (at silver value) even though it is a medal.

    Sometimes they did, in Sweden the king handed out "Largesse" pieces to crowds during that time and they did circulate afterwards as coins.

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