some german stuff
demodigger
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i usually only post in the detecting forum, but LM suggests i post these here. hard to believe, but my scanner is clean. those marks i think are just chip in the glass. anyway got these and few others at the santa clara show today. wadda you think?
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The middle one is a popular type, commemorating the defeat of Napoleon, but I've never seen the other two. Have any info on them? I especially like the color of the last one!
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I too haven't seen it before.
It shows Saxonia and the crest of Saxony. I guess Albert of Saxony is depicted on the reverse.
In the year 1089 Heinrich I. of Eilenberg was feoffed with the district "Mark Meißen." In the 12th century the House named themselves "Wettin" after the castle Wettin which was their family seat.
Later the House of Wettin split up in two lines, the Albertine line (later dukes, Electors and Kings of Saxony) and the Ernestine line (later the Saxonian duchies).
In 1889 Saxony celebrated the 800 year anniversary of the House of Wettin. This medal is commemorating that occasion.
The second is, as Eric said, a very well known 2 or 3 Mark piece.
I don't know the third, it reads: The K.K. (?) Styrian (Steiermark/Steiermarkische) Horticultural Association.
It's probably an Austrian medal.
Do you have pictures of the reverses?
09/07/2006
<< <i>Awesome stuff!
The middle one is a popular type, commemorating the defeat of Napoleon, but I've never seen the other two. Have any info on them? I especially like the color of the last one! >>
Same here I havent seen the first or the last coin before, but I think they are all fantastic coins
Members on here will no doubt tell you i'm not the easiest person to please (i'm the Simon Cowell of coins), but that first one got the 'wow' factor from me. Absolute beaut.
Schweeet!