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Funny coin with a funny guy!

BergBerg Posts: 63
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Just had to show you one of my most recent purchases.

I just had to have, no matter its defects, due to they look of the guy, Leopold, on it. image

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The funny thing is that if you compare the coin with a picture of him that I found... they coin isnt that bad... hehehe image

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    PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭
    A handsome fellow indeed image - Preussen
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    cachemancacheman Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭
    D'OH...Homer's great,great,great,great grand-father methinks!image
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    gxseriesgxseries Posts: 423
    A nice one image
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    satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720
    Looks like a horseface to me, so why was he known as Leopold the Hogmouth?
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    I think so.

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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,198 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good ol' Leopold the Hogmouth.

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    hyperizerhyperizer Posts: 130
    Very cool. I have one of the 6 KR ones. I like that they're inexpensive in mint state (for a 17th century coin!).
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    PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like a horseface to me, so why was he known as Leopold the Hogmouth? >>



    "Hogmouth" Thaler of Leopold; From 1701, the year he (as Holy Roman Emperor) granted Friedrich III, Elector of Brandenburg status as "Friedrich I, King in Prussia" for Friedrich's promise of support in the War of Spanish Succession - Preussen

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    3Mark3Mark Posts: 593 ✭✭✭
    Preussen:

    Nice pic and a good history lessonimage

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