newp: Dracula taler from 1580
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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
Old Mint in Saalfeld - closed in 1846.
1580 Saxe-Old-Weimar DAV-9768
Old Mint in Saalfeld - closed in 1846.
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Haha, nice.
Too bad that the everyday bloodsuckers still are around.
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