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1756 German States Patrona & a couple Thaler re-strikes

A couple more from this collection of foreign silver.
I know you darksiders see this kind of thing all the time but I'm enjoying looking these up and learning a thing or two.
Here's a 1756 Patrona - I'm fairly certain it's legit. It weighs 27.7 on my scale and is roughly 42mm.
It has an interesting obverse cud that seems to carry over on the reverse?


Also a couple Thaler re-strikes. It's interesting to me that the diameter is different between the two, they both weigh 28.1g




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  • PatARPatAR Posts: 347 ✭✭✭

    Cool! Love these big silver coins. I'm not sure if I'm looking at the same location you referenced the cud, but 12h on that first coin appears to be a repaired hole or mount for a necklace.

    Have you had a chance to delve into identification of the specific mint/date of issue for the Maria Theresa thalers? If not, a couple of hours of good fun await you! :)

    1messydesk.com/MTTs/m_theresia_talers.html

    theresia.name/en/svariants.html

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What you think is a Cud is where a mount was removed. It is very common on this type.

  • StorkStork Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Meltdown, Big old silver is always cool--thanks for posting it! Nice thing about the darkside (other than the cookies, see Civitas' post) is that pretty much anything you show will be interesting to a least a few people! I'm always glad folks take the time to put up the photos.

    Also, thank you @PatAR for the links, I have one and my husband has one--he bought it in Dubai, so that's got to be a fun one to research!

    Cathy

    (PS, of course, this is the man who recently pulled a decent looking-if-circulated proof US trade dollar out of a box...20+years and he only now thinks to show me that??!!?!?! So who knows, the taler might be something after all).


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