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Coinlover101
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Inspired by Mr Eureka 's New Zealand Florin.
Mine is a Spanish 2 Reales that I picked up for The Coin of the Month series that I post on these threads.
Post 'em if you've got 'em!!!
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Münster seige thaler issued during the insurrection by the city of Münster against its ruler, Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen. The siege lasted from July 1660 to March 1661.
Wúnderbar!!
Peace
Hutt River Province uniface special strike, George Orwell portrait, sculptor Alex Shagin:
This is a Medio from General Moreales, struck about 1812
Uniface 1770 Nurnberg Pfennig
Biface 1770 Nurnberg Pfennig
My World Coin Type Set
Wrong forum, apologies.
I think AU55 is way too harsh.
Potosà Mint, by the way.
Canadian, thats all i know
I don't think Canadian. Some tokens early 19th century, but coinage only from 1858.
Probably a Canadian blacksmith token. @ambro51 might know better. He loves those crude pieces.
South Ferriby ‘Stork Head’ Rich Type 28a Unit, 55-45BC
Corieltavi Tribe, English Midlands. Silver, 13-15mm, 1.18g. Horse right, stork head, pellet rosette above, pellet below tail. Uniface (ABC 1806; VA 884-1; S−).
Tetricus I Antoninianus, 260-275
Cologne. Silver, 17.1mm, 1.84g. Uniface. Pax standing left, holding olive branch and sceptre; PAX AVG (RIC V, Tetricus I 100 or RIC V, Tetricus I 248). From the Cottenham (Cambridgeshire) Hoard 1986.
1876 Germany-Empire, Sch2M.G4 Ag Uniface, PR64CAM
This was evidently struck in collar with another blank, so says NGC and also Mike Byers. In hand this coin has very satiny prooflike obverse though....Steve Hill says likely a special strike:
The images got mixed up, and don't know why.....
Now this is NOT mint state despite the familiar TPG designating as such. Also graded "55", NO WAY IMHO...Edward VIII pattern:
Well, just Love coins, period.
Canadian Blacksmith are quite rare! Dick loved those crude pieces! Congrats on a great coin!
Are the early uniface coins shown here uniface on purpose or errors?
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
1696 Regensburg Pfennig
1712 Regensburg Pfennig
1745 Regensburg Pfennig
My World Coin Type Set
It's a mixture. The Roman one posted by John Conduitt is an "error", others such as John Conduitt's Celtic piece were deliberately made that way. The German pfennigs are deliberate as Germany had a long and veneralbel history of making uniface coins, of which these were among the last vestiges.
Many of the modern ones are not technically "errors" but "trial strikes" - deliberately made to test dies or designs. The Royal Mint in London would often make a blank die with the word "MODEL" on it for use in making uniface trials, to mkae usre no-one ever confused it with a genuine coin.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
Spanish Netherlands, Charles III, PATAGON obverse struck on uniface Tin planchet with original die at the Royal Belgian Mint.
Metal: Tin, Size: 53 mm
Leaving aside the Celtic which would probably flood the forum. Some more modern bits here.
As indicated, many are patterns and in that respect a striking to to see how it looked in hand in all probability. A couple of tin/lead/pewter splashes to start. First up a Moore coroneted head obverse which appears under a microscope to have been recut from the 1860 penny obverse die for the patterns struck by him and known to be breaking up based on a few flawed examples. That die wasn't to be found when Shorthouse visited Moore shortly before his death - hence my postulated reason for this.
Second, a crown obverse splash of a newly designed obverse following Victoria's displeasure with the Jubilee Head bust. This is the unsigned version of which an example exists in silver but is unique. The full pattern uses the 1888 currency reverse die, but at £30Kish for one of the 4 known examples, this was the poor man's option.
A couple of 1860 dated Weyl pattern pennies in copper and gold next. These were almost certainly struck in 1887 as similar examples dated 1887 exist and also exist using a common reverse die. There is also a silver piece somewhere to make up the set of 3 (I would be interested in this one). An FYI also, the copper was slabbed by NGC as a Peck unlisted pattern halfpenny. Not surprising as he would have recognised it as a penny had he seen it, as he would all the other non-halfpenny denominations! Some claim these were made to order by Murdoch, but that flies in the face of logic as there was a copper Weyl pattern in the Moon sale (1901), and Murdoch died 2 years later.
Also in the Murdoch sale was a farthing size uniface in copper with C on the truncation. It was this piece that provided the missing link to ascribe all the Weyl patterns in the Glens Dec. 1992 sale to the Murdoch sale as these were all bought by one person and so allowed for my article to be produced in the 2011 BNJ which should form the definitive list for these pieces.
Next, a George IV pattern 2 pounds reverse uniface in copper with the edge dated 1828. Ex-Murdoch
And finally, a George III Soho pattern obverse for a halfpenny. This is Peck's KH15, P1231, struck in bronzed copper and also known in gilt and copper. To my knowledge all either unique or 2 known, max.
And not to ignore the Celtic, a fractional unit of the Corieltauvi tribe.