European coins from 1504

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Fritz Rudolf Künker Munzenhandlung  
Numismatik Lanz München

LHS-Numismatik
(formerly Leu)

  
Gorny & Mosch
Auctiones AG Basel (now part of Münzen & Medaillen GmbH)  
Münzen and Medaillen GmbH
Classical Numismatic Group  
 
 Jean Elsen et ses Fils, S.A. 
Dr. Busso Peus Nachf.   UBS Gold and Numismatics
Westfalische Auktions Gesellschaft  
Numismatica Ars Classica 

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BADEN
Schilling, 21mm 1.38g, Schulten 95
A very rare coin from Baden, this example sold for $1000.

BRABANT
Double Patard, 28mm, Gelder-Hoc 119-1
BRANDENBURG
Groschen, 25mm, Schulten 269

BRANDENBURG-FRANCONIA
Goldgulden, 23mm 3.24g, Schulten 193 - Schwabach mint
EAST FRISIA
Double Krummsteert, 25mm, Schulten 2553

EINBECK
Körtling, 20mm c. 1.4g , Schulten 808
GÖTTINGEN
Körtling, 20mm c. 1.5g, Schulten 1004
GLOGAU (Silesia)
Groschen, 24mm, Schulten 967
This is Poland's earliest dated coin, although it is technically a Silesian issue while under Polish rule. The Gothic '4' is upside down. This is a very rare coin and sells for many times more than the next date in the series (1506).
HESSE
Quarter Guldiner

Albus, 27mm 1.9-2.2g, Schulten 1218

HUNGARY
Goldgulden, 22mm 3.39g, Huszar 771
The 90° clockwise rotated '4' was a common feature on Austrian and a few Hungarian coins for several decades.
PFALZ, Alte-Kurlinie
Groschen, 22-24mm 3.06g, Schulten 2661
Excellent examples showing perfect Gothic 4's. Also called a Zehner.

Half Batzen, 22mm 2.38g, Schulten 2660


POMERANIA
Schilling, 19mm c.1.3g, Schulten 2768
SALZBURG
Rübenthaler, 44mm 26.73g, Schulten 4237
This is a 19th century restrike of the rübenthaler, which is so named because of the turnip that Leonard von Keutschach used as his heraldric logo. The German word for turnip is rüben.

This is an original rübenthaler that was sold by Leu Numismatik in October 2004 for an astonishing $64,140! The reverse design of the two Saints carrying the cathedral is almost whimsical and beautifully engraved.
ST. GALLEN
Dicken, 28mm 9.65g, HMZ 719

ZURICH
Dicken, 28mm 9.62g, HMZ 1124
This and its companion 1505 coin are rare and highly valuable, selling for $4,000-$5,000 in this grade at recent auctions. The second coin with the C-H punch sold for $2,100. I'm not sure of the meaning behind the symbolism of the Saints holding their own heads.

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