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newp: Dracula taler from 1580

worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭✭✭
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OK....maybe not the true dracula but the period style collars certainly bring him to mind. I hadn't made any purchases for quite awhile so I decided to go for this one offered by NEN. It is an early date 1580 taler from the german state of Saxe-Old-Weimar. It features the rulers Friedrich Wilhelm I and Johann III. It was produced in the Saalfeld mint, located in the district of Thuringia. This area of Germany is the ancestral seat of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha branch of the Saxon House of Wettin

1580 Saxe-Old-Weimar DAV-9768
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Old Mint in Saalfeld - closed in 1846.
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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pretty cool taler - don't think i've ever seen that one before image
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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He is a scary looking guy!
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  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice Brent. You did very well for a 16th century piece.
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,668 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Funny, I could swear I saw those guys behind a bourse table last week.

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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My motto was "Not your everyday bloodsucker". >>



    Haha, nice.
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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Not your everyday bloodsucker

    Too bad that the everyday bloodsuckers still are around.
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  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    Very nice pickup.
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  • Nunfa0Nunfa0 Posts: 162
    Very cool Taler!!
  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    whoa, that is very cool!!
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  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    I like it! That is 100 on the coolness scale! image
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