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Details for Coins and Medals

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

Connected records

Kampen, city, AR one-eighth stuiver, 1485 (cf. Cost Jordens, Kampen 11 for rev.), 0.20g, chipped. From Coin Investments sale 54, lot 506; ex Van Ingen; bt P. Williams 1.10.1978.

Maker(s)

Mint: Kampen

Friesland, AR penny, secular issue, 12th cent., obv. bust right with helmet and staff (unpublished). From Coin Investments sale 54, lot 405.

Flanders, Philip the Handsome (1482-1506), AR groot, 1505/6 (VGH 121.5), 1.47g. From Coin Investments sale 54, lot 689.

Maker(s)

Ruler: Philip the Handsome (1482-1506)

Looz, Arnold VIII (1279-1323), AR kopje (Baerten 35 var.; Van Hengel 1987, 147), 0.37g. From Coin Investments sale 54, lot 658; found Egmond.

Maker(s)

Mint: Looz
Ruler: Arnold V (1279-1323) (As Arnold VIII)

Bamberg, Otto I (1102-39), AR penny (Krug 29a), 0.89g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Bamberg
Ruler: Otto I (1102-39)

Donauwörth, Henry VI (1190-7), AR bracteate (Steenhilber 103), 0.80g. From Künker sale 52, lot 5011.

Maker(s)

Mint: Donauwörth
Ruler: Henry VI (1190-7)

Poland, Boleslav V (1243-79), AR bracteate, Saint handing banner to prince, FA / S (Gumowski -), 0.16g. From Künker sale 52, lot 3817.

Maker(s)

Ruler: Boleslav V (1243-79)

Merovingians, contemporary plated (copper-gilt) copy of tremissis, Dronrijp type, Frisian mint, mid-7th cent., with bust right (cf. MEC 1.518); dia. 15.5mm, 1.08g, with remains of a copper-alloy loop, which has been rivited to the coin at an arbitrary orientation (to display neither the bust nor the cross). Found near King’s Lynn, Norfolk, 1999.

As last (Krug 1514), 1.55g. From Künker sale 52, lot 5235.

Maker(s)

Ruler: Ernest Elector of Saxony (1464-1486)
Ruler: Albert III, Duke of Saxony (1464-1500)
Ruler: William III (1445-1482) (As William II)

Saxony, Ernest, Albert and William II (1465-82), AR spitzgroschen (Krug 1495), 1.49g. From Künker sale 52, lot 5234.

Maker(s)

Ruler: Ernest Elector of Saxony (1464-1486)
Ruler: Albert III, Duke of Saxony (1464-1500)
Ruler: William III (1445-1482) (As William II)

Cambrai, Andrew of Luxemburg (1390-8), AR quarter-gros (Weiller 124), 0.53g, chipped.

Maker(s)

Mint: Cambrai
Ruler: Andrew of Luxembourg (1390-98)

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

Ruler: Philip the Handsome (1482-1506)

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

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

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

Mint: Ypres

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

Ruler: Charles the Bold (1467-77)

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

Ruler: John the Fearless (1404-19)

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

Ruler: Philip the Handsome (1482-1506)

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

Ruler: Philip the Handsome (1482-1506)

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

Mint: Ghent

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

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

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

Mint: Namur
Ruler: Philip the Good (1419-1467)

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

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

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

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

One of twenty-nine medieval coins:

Maker(s)

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

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