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Details for Coins and Medals

This department has 105,279 records attributed within our system.

Connected records

Namur, Philip the Handsome (1482-1506), gold half-florin of St Philip, 1500-4 (Van Gelder & Hoc 116-7b), l.63g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Namur
Ruler: Philip the Handsome (1482-1506)

Italy, 200 lire, 1993, Rome; AERONAUTICA MILITARE 1923-1993.

Maker(s)

Mint: Rome

Charles VII of France (1422-61), struck silver gilt medal ('Calaisienne') commemorating the expulsion of the English from Normandy, c.1454 (F. Mazerolle, Les Medailleurs français du XV au mileu du XVII siecle (Paris, 1904), II, p.2, no. 3; J. Jacquiot, 'Médailles et jetons gravés en taille directe', Les graveurs d'acier et la médaille de l'Antiquité à nos jours (Paris, 1971), pp. 311-97, no. 3.) 58mm, 26.56g. Obv. gloria pax tibi sit rex karole lavs Q3 perhenivs regnvm francorv / tanto discri mine labens hostili rabie victa virtvte / reformans xpi consilio legis et avxilio Rev. hora nona dominvs ihs expiravit heli clamans animam patri con/mendavit latvs eivs lancea miles perforavit terra tvc/contremvit et sol obscvravit adoramvs te xpe (5th stanza of the Horae canonicae Salvatoris, 14th cent.; cf. Jacquiot, op. cit., p. 324, n. 1)

Maker(s)

Ruler: Charles VII (1422-61)

Russian Republic, 10 roubles, 1992.

Stephen (1135-54), 'Roundels' varaint of the Watford type (BMC 1), silver penny, Ipswich, moneyer Pagan (Mack no. 167, same dies). 1.10g. Found near Thetford, 1993.

Maker(s)

Mint: Ipswich
Ruler: Stephen (1135-1154)

Russian Republic, 20 roubles, 1992.

School prize medal, Newcastle upon Tyne, S. Waters Boarding School, Dec. 1793. Obv. 'My Labour is Recompensed'; rev. beehive in garden. Cf. Grimshaw, Girls, nos. 71-3. Silver, engraved, 32 mm, 11.52 g. From Hirsch sale 178, lot 2743. Three other medals of different years and designs have been attributed to Mrs Waters School, of which two are in this collection and one in the British Museum.

Sicily, Frederick II (1197-1250), silver fractional dirhem (Spahr -; F. D'Angelo, Aspetti della vita materiale in epoca Normanna in Sicilia (Palermo, 1984), p. 59, no. 46), 0.38g.

Maker(s)

Ruler: Frederick II (1198-1250)

UK, £5 piece, 1993, cupro-nickel; to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Elizabeth II, 1953-93.

Maker(s)

Mint: Royal Mint
Ruler: Elizabeth II (r. 1952-2022)

Russian Republic, 20 roubles, 1992.

Antwerp, 11th cent. (Dannenberg 140 var.; Hatz 5-6 var.), 1.00g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Antwerp

Namur, Guy de Dampiere (1263-97), silver half esterling (Chalon 51), 0.57g.

Maker(s)

Ruler: Guy de Dampiere (1263-97)

USSR, 1 rouble, 1991.

Brabant, Henry II/III (1235- ), silver petit denier, Two-headed eagle type, GOLI (Witte 138), 0.54g.

Maker(s)

Ruler: Henry II (1235-48)
Ruler: Henry III (1248-61)

Russian Republic, 50 roubles, 1992.

One of two medieval German coins:

Maker(s)

Mint: Zofingen
Ruler: Frederick I (1314-30)
Ruler: Leopold I (1308-26)

USSR, 5 roubles, 1991.

Venice, a modern forgery of a 15th-century grosso, 1.71g.

Antwerp, 11th cent. (Dannenberg 140 var.; Hatz 5-6 var.), 1.13g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Antwerp

One of five medieval coins of Brandenburg:

Maker(s)

Ruler: Albert III (1283-1300)

One of five medieval coins of Brandenburg:

One of five medieval coins of Sicily:

Maker(s)

Mint: Messina
Ruler: James I of Aragon (1285-96)

One of five medieval coins of Brandenburg:

One of five medieval coins of Brandenburg:

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