Help with this one pls!

Started by Minimax88, April 25, 2016, 03:54:12 PM

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Minimax88

Please help me with this coin. I think it is silver coin not silverd, but edges are black. Diameter is 1.8 cm and weight about 0.9 g.
Reverse shows something like palace with 2 flags, while obverse is scratched completely. I thought that it is hungarian denar but I couldn't find it in catalog of their coins. Sorry for bad picture quality. Any help would be appreciated.

THCoins

Hi, Minimax,

I think you should turn the lower photo 90 degrees to the right. Then you will probably detect a sitting bishop with a staff on the right and a book on the left. (But a better picture would help  :-\!)

The combination of the castle and the bishop would suggest this is a German medieval pfennig from the 12th or 13th century. Unfortunately there are a lot of derivatives of this design. But a large number of the basic types of these come from the bischopric of Cologne (Köln) in Germany. Can not give you the specific type though.

Compare to this link.

Anthony

Minimax88

Thank you so much for your help THCoins!  :D