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Offline Erica S

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Help identifying incredibly-long mustache coin hammered silver
« on: July 23, 2022, 04:17:15 pm »
One more for today:
16mm
1.1g
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Offline Jan P

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Re: Help identifying incredibly-long mustache coin hammered silver
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2022, 05:31:26 pm »
Hello Erica S,
Your coin is a ...
DENAR from the town of MÜNSTER in GERMANY
See below:
The head with the long mustache belongs to Saint Paul  :laugh:!
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Offline Jan P

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Re: Help identifying incredibly-long mustache coin hammered silver
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2022, 05:56:56 pm »
First I thought it was a piece of Florenz von Wevelinghofen (1363-1379), because of the sceptre in the bishops' hand.
But it is not all so clear on your coin. The kind of clover than again points to Ludwig von Hessen (1310-1357).
See below:
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Offline Erica S

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Re: Help identifying incredibly-long mustache coin hammered silver
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2022, 06:35:13 pm »
Hi Jan P,
Thank you so much for your expertise. The portrait almost looks Asian, so it really through me off track. I never would have thought St Paul!
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Offline Jan P

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Re: Help identifying incredibly-long mustache coin hammered silver
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2022, 04:06:38 am »
Yes, in Münster they must have developped a strange love to their patron saint, to portrait him with such a face.
(They made sure he was "all ears to their prayers").
I kept a bit looking to that bishop-side of your coin and realised I was wrong to turn your original picture by 180°.
Underneath I turned it back to its original position to be able to compare some details, which point all to a Ludwig von Hessen-type.
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