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Guest Peter DK

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Guest Peter DK

post-0-1156349055_thumb.jpgpost-0-1156349065_thumb.jpgHi All

This coin puzzles me.

Cant find it in my normal litterature.

Cant even find the probber country where is struck.

First I thought it was a Regensburg coin but as fars I have no positive match. Can anyone in here help.

Kind regards

Peter

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Gee Peter - not much detail! Please can you confirm the reverse design is the same as the obverse? Is the metal silver? And the size/diameter please? :D

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Hopefully a better pic

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O kay... metal and dimensions would still help. And whether the coin is the same on both sides?

I haven't a clue. However, I have a couple of guesses which I hope someone else on the site might dismiss or back up.

First impression is along the line you have taken - mid European, possibly German. Around 15th century. Pfennig / 1/2 pfennig from one of the German city states? Certainly the monogram should be identifiable but so far I have failed to find a match. Regensburg seems logical with it's emblem of crossed keys but I can't see examples where the keys have been adapted like this to form letters. Perhaps another Burg or a Bishop's monogram? Certainly it was quite common in that part of the world to make a monogram out of someone's name or initials - some are more obvious than others.

Course, it could be something else entirely..!

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I get the diameter as soon as i get from work.

No the sides are not identical. I allmost sure that the metal is silver.

kind regards

Peter

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post-0-1156457523_thumb.jpgHere is the other side!

The diameter of the piece is 12 mm

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Peter

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It's not lead is it? If it could be, or billion, then I'd suggest a "Mereaux" or church token. I'm busy researching one at the moment. I'll post pictures as soon as I get them on Omnicoin! (mine's lead though)

http://www.omnicoin.com/display_img.aspx?image=Image1

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Im almost 100 % positive sure that it is silver.

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Peter

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