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I need help identifying 6 world coins please

kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
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If anyone has any type of attributions ie. country, denomination, anything helpful I would really appreciate it. I got these in a collection and have no clue what they are.

Coin #1

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Coin #2

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Coin #3

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Coin #4

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Coin #5

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Coin #6

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Cameron Kiefer

Comments

  • JimKJimK Posts: 605
    I think some of those are Nuremburg Jetons.
    #5 surely is. Here's a link about them:

    Nuremburg Jeton Inscriptions

    Enjoy!

    Jim
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Thanks Jim. image

    Cameron Kiefer
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep. #2 is a Krauwinckel jeton. I see his name or initials on some of the others, too.

    All but the first and last are definitely jetons, and probably those, as well, from what I can tell.

    That last piece looks older. More 15th century than 16th?

    Cool pieces- I haven't seen those exact types before.

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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    So Jetons are French right? (I'm a newbie at this).

    Cameron Kiefer
  • JimKJimK Posts: 605
    Kiefer,
    Nuremburg is in Germany...but they were used all over the place in Europe.
    Jim
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  • coachleonardcoachleonard Posts: 995 ✭
    The last two look like French "Venus" jettons-- I believe Burgundy pieces, and if I remember correctly, date c. 1480-1505 or so. All look to be 1500's to early 1600's jettons.
  • coachleonardcoachleonard Posts: 995 ✭
    p.s-- first jetton was either struck in Netherlands or FOR Netherlands as it definitely has Netherlands symbolism on it (the sheathed arrows, the style of crouched lion) and my guess this would be mid to late 1500's
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,662 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So Jetons are French right? (I'm a newbie at this). >>



    I believe the word might be of French origin, though as you see, many of the jetons themselves were made in the German states. They were made all over, though, and were often used as mathematical counters (in sort of an abacus fashion, somehow).

    I have often wondered if they ever had a monetary use in circulation when small change was in short supply. Some Krauwinckel jetons turned up in archaeological digs at the Jamestown settlement.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Speaking of jetons, check out the corroded-but-cool one I just found in my "Holey Coin Vest Extras" jar.

    You gotta love that sea-monstery "dolphin".

    And the manus dei (hand of God) reaching out of the cloud with a crown, to put on its ugly, snarling head. Too cool, I think.

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