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Ryou H

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Help identifying a coin!
« on: May 21, 2023, 06:35:26 am »
Hello.
Need help to identify this ancient coin.
It seems like it could be from Kiev Rus', but not sure.

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Re: Help identifying a coin!
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2023, 07:20:02 am »
I do not believe in Kiev Rus for this coin  :-\. To my opinion rather one of the Bishop cities of North Germany, if not feudal France  ::).

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Re: Help identifying a coin!
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2023, 05:13:55 pm »
Hello Ryou H,

I think we have your coin here:
A Pfennig of the German Abbey of Corvey, with on the obverse: the abbot and on the reverse: the head of Saint Vitus.
Struck under Heinrich III von Homburg (1272-1306).
See underneath:

Ryou H

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Re: Help identifying a coin!
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2023, 01:02:30 am »
Hello Ryou H,

I think we have your coin here:
A Pfennig of the German Abbey of Corvey, with on the obverse: the abbot and on the reverse: the head of Saint Vitus.
Struck under Heinrich III von Homburg (1272-1306).
See underneath:


Oh, thank you very much!

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Re: Help identifying a coin!
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2023, 06:35:25 pm »
A very striking image.  I had to google St. Vitus and it turns out that he was usually depicted with long curly blonde hair....

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Re: Help identifying a coin!
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2023, 02:46:11 pm »
Hello Shawn,
Saint Vitus, as a Sicilian born boy who lived in the time of Diocletian, must have been most probably short haired and without beard. But than again, who knows? It is a guess.
However, here is a link to an article of the Orthodox Church in America abouth the life of St. Vitus and the painting there shows an image which does not differ to much from our coin:
(For what it is worth  ::))
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2012/05/16/101398-martyrs-vitus-modestus-and-crescentia-at-lucania

 

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