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Offline DruMAX

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Small Silver Coin...any ideas?
« on: August 01, 2007, 10:22:02 am »


Having a hard time with this one and am unable to find a coin just like it...there are a lot of possible OTTO's and I can make out what is on the reverse at all...any ideas? Anyone can tell what the reverse is?

it looks similar in style to this Pfennig of Otto IV

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Re: Small Silver Coin...any ideas?
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2007, 04:10:48 pm »
Otto V, Brandenburg-Preussen (a now-blocked online listing).
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Re: Small Silver Coin...any ideas?
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2007, 04:29:42 pm »
AH!! Thats it...thanks. The reverse is a helmet...I sat there looking at it for an hour and didnt make the connection that it was a helmet. :(
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Re: Small Silver Coin...any ideas?
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2007, 04:52:19 pm »
That first CA example looks much more like a boar than a helmet to me; very hard to pin down! You got the Brandenburg-Preussen connection, which then yielded the one really reliable search-lemma besides ot+and+to+and+tto, namely otto+and+otto+and+brand+and pfen -- then Bob's (Otto's) your uncle.  Best wishes, archivum
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