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Need Identification for this coin

danoomistmatistedanoomistmatiste Posts: 3 ✭
edited July 20, 2021 7:52AM in World & Ancient Coins Forum

Hello Gentlemen and fellow Numismatists. This is my first post on this forum. Glad to be part of it and in such eclectic company. I need identification of this coin.


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  • IVBIVB Posts: 248 ✭✭✭

    Replica of Prague Groshen.

  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome to the Darkside!

    Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.
  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Bohemian groschen struck in Prague, or "Pragergroschen", was a late mediaeval silver trade coin, struck in vast quantities from 1298 using silver mined locally from the Kutna Hora silver mine.

    Replica groschen are sold as souvenirs to visitors of the Prague mint, and probably from museums in Prague as well. This particular coin is a replica of a groschen of Bohemian king Wenceslaus II, who was the first issuer of pragergroschen. To see what a genuine Wenceslaus II groschen normally looks like check out the example on the Wikipedia page for the pragergroschen

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  • danoomistmatistedanoomistmatiste Posts: 3 ✭

    Thank you all for this valuable information.

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