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Gramps3Gramps3 Posts: 25
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This is an old coin or token I won in a bag of very old coins at an auction sale. The coin is silver and slightly larger than a U.S. dime. On obverse has a devilsh face with tonge sticking far our of mouth. Obverse has a design with a small star in center. I can't read legends around rims. Can anyone identify this?

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  • MadMuffinMadMuffin Posts: 468 ✭
    You posted the obverse picture twice image

    Not sure about this one, but I can read the word CIVITAS to the right of the portrait which means that it was issued by some European city (or by some well known forum member image - sorry, had to write that!).

    I guess it's from the 1300s or 1400s. Perhaps if you post the reverse we can get a little closer.

    Marcel
    Ebay user name: 00MadMuffin00
  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Um, those two pics are the same side... image

    There's still enough to identify it, I believe: Mediaeval German States, Wismar, late 1300's AD. Obverse: bill's head, CIVITAS MAGROP around. Reverse should be a flowery cross with MONETA WVSMAR around. This one on CoinArchives is similar.
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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The other side has already been posted, in a second thread, here.

    Yep, it's from Wismar. image
    Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

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