Georgivs

[Guest Daniel]

Hi All,

Would be grateful if someone could help me on this.

I have a coin of 30mm diameter, very thin and looks like gold not heavy though, on one side looks like george and the dragon, but not with a small sword like on most coins but with a spear and the writing although I cant make it all out: GEORGIVS ?OV???? ??PATRONVAS

2nd side: some sort of ship with the writing (also not clear)

IM???R?STATE SECVRITAS

Many thanks for any help

Daniel

[Edward 0]

Daniel, is there any chance to upload a picture of this? Any date on it?

[Guest Guest]

Hi Edward, no date on it, but could email you 2 pics.

Daniel

[Chris Perkins 228]

If you register here, you can post them within this discussion.

[Edward 0]

Daniel, registering here would be the best thing, that way you would have a host of eyes looking at your coin.

[Half Penny Jon 0]

This sounds like an interesting coin.............

[kuhli 0]

Good luck amulets for fisherman, produced throughout the last 200+ years, based on the design of Hungarian ducats from Kremnitz. The reverse legend translates to "safety in the storm", to protect the sailors from the perils of the sea.

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/unicorn/c...et&sortBy=title

The National Maritime Museum has 3 specimens of these amulets in their on-line gallery. (fishermans' charms, #2-4)

[Chris Perkins 228]

My uncle Peter got married in the national maritime Museum last weekend. I used to live not far from there, and uncle Peter is about the only member of the family that still lives where we 'came from'. Oh well, that was obviously nothing to do with the coin, but it does seem like we have an answer for Daniel.

Thanks Kuhli, very well done.

[Guest Daniel]

Hi all, thanks for all your help and interest, Kuhli found the answer, mine is a bit more worn though!

Greetings, Daniel

[Edward 0]

Kudos to Kuhli for this amazing piece of encyclopeadic numismatica. I propose him for the July 2004 Perkins Award for Numismatic Arcana (PANA).