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Chur city year not recorded?

Started by carpatic, November 22, 2024, 05:28:55 AM

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carpatic

Hi, I have this coin, fro Chur city, which gives me trouble.
As I can read the year, is either 1737 or 1757. In hand, I am more inclined to 57.
But, Krause and Numista do not give either of the 2 years.
Could it be a new year to report, or am I just reading it wrong?
Thanks!

Figleaf

I have no doubt that it is 1737. The first two digits were engraved with the coin. The third and fourth digits were punched into the die later and both not well aligned and askew.

Peter

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An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

JohnI

A Descriptive Catalogue of Swiss Coins in the South Kensington Museum may help. This has descriptions of a few of the city issues;

https://archive.org/details/descriptivecatal00sout/page/122/mode/2up

This seems to be the basis of the Numista listing. From what I can see, the 1705 image on Numista is for a coin dated 1750. 1750 is not on the date list.

Regards;


John

carpatic

Thanks. I wrote on Numista forum to ask for the year to be added in their catalog

JohnI

The catalogue shows that a transition from NOVA to NOUA and a transition to the full legend occurred in 1740. However the 1740 issue had a couple of other changes, especially the goat facing right. However the 1750 coin illustrated on Numista and the later coins suggest that the other changes were a one year thing.

Based on this I would say that your coin is dated 1757 and that the additional "stroke" making the 5 look like a 3 is, like the strange down stroke of the 7 and other areas on the coin, a production flaw (die failure if the coin was struck).   


Regards;


John