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Interesting NEN coin - Transylvania

worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭
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I love browsing their inventory! This one in particular is quite unusual.

1694-CV 10 Ducats Trial White Metal CF-KM-514 - NGC AU-55
Probably unique, a moon shaped trial striking of the gold 10 ducats (worth $75,000 or more in this grade). From the Montenuova sale of Hess in 1880

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  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It may be the wine talking, but I think it looks like a set of fangs. Go figure.



    Cathy

  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭
    I was thinking a boomerang myself.

    Having something pedigreed to a 1880 sale is impressive. Is 1880 a typo?
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There were all kinds of weirdo shapes of Transylvanian coins in that era. I always thought they were cool when I was browsing the 17th century Krause volume. This is the first time I have actually seen a color picture of one, though. Krause is the only place I'd ever seen them before.

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    It may be the wine talking, but I think it looks like a set of fangs.

    Ditto!image
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,331 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1880 is correct.

    Montenuovo’sche Munzsammlungen, A. Hess 22.-26. Sept. 1880. Frankfurt am Main.
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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>1880 is correct.

    Montenuovo’sche Munzsammlungen, A. Hess 22.-26. Sept. 1880. Frankfurt am Main. >>






    Is that the same Hess in today's Hess Divo company?
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  • LynchLynch Posts: 299


    << <i>

    << <i>1880 is correct.

    Montenuovo’sche Munzsammlungen, A. Hess 22.-26. Sept. 1880. Frankfurt am Main. >>






    Is that the same Hess in today's Hess Divo company? >>




    I think so.

    Adolph Hess Nachfolger was a distinguished Frankfurt-M Jewish numismatic firm that left Germany in the 1930's and relocated to Switzerland.

    I don't know a lot about their history, but do know they had some joint auctions with Bank Leu in the past.
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