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Other tokens and medals => Unidentified tokens => Topic started by: Alex Island on October 25, 2020, 06:58:54 PM

Title: Churtrier Island(?) 1692 Churtrierisland
Post by: Alex Island on October 25, 2020, 06:58:54 PM

What is this coin? What country and territory are we talking about? 

(https://www.picclickimg.com/00/s/NzQ3WDc2Mg==/z/lxEAAOSwnclflB7~/$/Churtrier-Island-Silver-3-1692-_57.jpg)
(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/303739366253_/Churtrier-Island-Silver-3-1692.jpg)

Title: Re: Churtrier Island(?) 1692 Churtrierisland
Post by: Henk on October 25, 2020, 10:24:28 PM

It is a coin of the Archbishopric of Trier: Johann Hugo von Orsbeck (1676-1711) as I read the date as 1692. The inscription reads: CHVR TRIERIS LAND MVNZ. The denomination is 3 petermengen

Title: Re: Churtrier Island(?) 1692 Churtrierisland
Post by: Alex Island on October 25, 2020, 10:33:32 PM

Thank you, Henk!  :)
Now the inscription is visible:

(https://ccoins.ru/new/21/21ger10.jpg)