Coin Identification Game

[Kasperus]

Incidentally I found back that old thread. Incidentally also my scanner is working again. I thought about showing my pride but then I realized that I`m proud of most of my coins and that would take ages to scan it all in so I found another idea

As this thread was about coin-identification, I will give you a small quizzie: behold 20 various coins from my collection, from different countries and periods of time and try to identify as many as possible (country, year/period, denomination) using the images and additional hints that I provided. only one side showed for some challenge.

ANSWER-TEMPLATE AND HINTS

1. (country) (year) (denominaton)
HINT: Probably one of the hardest examples. The text on the coin is: SANCT.MARC.V. Century is enough.

2. (country) (..78) (2 maravedis)
HINT: what eu-flag do you see here? The thing in the middle should determine the century.

3. (country) (year) (50 ...)
HINT: read also the text and not only the image.

4. (country) (year) (1 ...)
HINT: too easy to give hints

5. (country) (year) (2 pence, common name is? ...)
HINT: is the image masculine or feminine? The first letters are E.D.G.R... should be enough.

6. (country) (1954) (50 pyas)
HINT: only the country needed, the alphabet is obviously not latin

7. (country) (year) (denomination)
HINT: the text is arabic and I have only a rough idea where that coin comes from so if someone knows more about it anyway, I will appreciate it

8. (country) (year) (denomination)
HINT: no text, further the same as 7

9. (country) (year) (denomination)
HINT: hint should not be needed here

10. (country) (1984) (denomination)
HINT: the hardest part is the identification of those animals

11. (country) (year) (denomination)
HINT: at least the nominal value is somewhere on the coin.

12. (country) (year) (denomination)
HINT: approximate century is enough although the date is in theory idetificable up to 3 years error.

13. (country) (year) (siglos)
HINT: century is enough. the image is that of a warrior

14. (country - the "real" one) (year) (1 duit)
HINT: the name on the coin is not the country

15. (country) (1652) (denomination)
HINT: the text is: SOLIDUS.CIVI.RIG.5.2

16. (country) (year) (50 ...)
HINT: where is that building located in the world? Notice the stars.

17. (country) (year) (denomination)
HINT: no special hints for some challenge, century is enough (think of the time that that country minted most of its coins)

18. (country) (year) (denomination)
HINT: Those coins were struck in peculiar way from wires of metal

19. (country) (year) (denomination)
HINT: denomination requires some research, but the value was equal to 12 grosz.

20. (country) (year) (denomination)
HINT: think of certain eu-flag. denomination requires some research so know that coin isn`t gold or silver.

Good Luck

 

[Jon Shafer]

Looks like you've silenced everyone here Kas.

About all I know is that I recognize the Brandenburg Gate in #16.

 

[unmerged(1463)]

3 is Checkoslovakai
Probably a memorial coin for celebration of the thirty year of communist rule.

4 must be swedish, as we have three crowns as coat of arms and stuff.

9 a deutche Mark

19is Poland around end of 1500-s
20 is Austria

am i right ?

 

[Kasperus]

@trip
that`s a good beginning

@Mikael
you are completely right
Indeed, the first and only thing that I can think of seeing a coin with 3 crowns is that it is swedish
Good identification of the polish coin, I guess you recognized the ruler. the actual date is 1622 but you couldn`t know that as the date is on the other side so late 1500`s is also good enough

No one any guesses for no`s 2 or 10? I thought those were the easiest?

 

[unmerged(1463)]

Well i like history, and as i am Swede i do know about the King on the Polish Coin, he was also King of Sweden at that time, causing a major civil war so i know him

Now to coin number two , i am having difficulty seeing the coin good, but i will give it a guess. And my guess would be either England or Belgium.... that is my guess.
And number ten, now i see what it is.. hmm, let me guess. Australia ?

I also have a humble guess at the nr 17.,
France, 1500...

also wanna give a try at nr 5.
E.D.G.R...

Eire De Green Road NAh, my guess is Ireland there.

 

[Kasperus]

hmm, well, coin 2 contains a composition of two towers and two lions. There is a certain eu-flag that looks exactly like that. The middle part is the french lellies (or whatever you call it) but that should in the first place determine the royal house and not the country. That should help I guess

Australia is of course correct

17 is wrong. Maybe the coin was struck in what is todays france, but at that moment it was surely not france

Ireland is wrong, not much though...of the letters E.D.G.R. the d.g.r... is very common combination on older coins and stands for dei gratia rex/regina. So the E must be the initial of the rulers name

 

[unmerged(1463)]

Two Towers and a lion you say, and french lilies. Well, House of Bourbon-valois seized throne in 1700, and has it still down there, and i know they had towers before. SO it must be, if im wrong now i am sad SPAIN.

17. that was a very good clue depending on its age, there can be multiple choices of location, but the most apparent would be Burgundy But that is to easy... i shall consider that one further...

E, a monarch with E, i can not imagine England has ever had a monarch with inital E... unless it is vikings of course, does the thing on the package involves (pence) if so it must be up there.
Else my guess would be Denmark, but if Pence is accurate,, ... hmm... Maby your AAR nation ?....


PS: If you want to sell any coins or .. contribute I gladly take ones from Germany/Austria or in relation to Sweden hint hint I collect more now, but more medals at the moment, do you have any medals ?

I hope i have made progress in my analize of your coins

 

[Kasperus]

Spain is correct. It is a 2 maravedis coin from Spain struck in 1778. With all those hints it became very easy of course

For coin 17, note that I said it is possible that the coin was struck in the territory of today`s France, but not necessarily. The location could have been actually quite far from there...

As to England: are you sure that there were no English rulers with E as initial? And who is ruling the todays England then? And there were also 8 Edwards on English throne...

 

[Kasperus]

Well, I don`t have much to sell I guess, I have only one of each kind usually and I`m colecting them all. I haev spare coins from Poland, Netherlands and England but not much else than that...I don`t collect medals, only coins that have had a nominal value.

 

[unmerged(1463)]

Didnt think of Edward and Elisabeth fellows

The nr 17 was very hard, so .. what you are saying is that it could be like.. Lousianna, Canada

coins from Poland, Netherlands and England but

Any coin from Poland that you can share from Sigismund or August of Sachsen era ?

And England all that interest me there is henry VIII

btw, do you know the real name of the alliance between Poland, Saxony, Russia, Denmark against sweden in the Great Northern war ?


PS: if you want more identification of coins, i beleive you have to give more hints

 

[Kasperus]

Well, you should have.
Coin 5 is a 2 pence piece from England, struck in 1601 or 1602 during the reign of Elizabeth I and it is my oldest English coin.

Hmm, well, coin 17 is actually easily identificable (at least approximately) if you have seen coins of such kind earlier. This actually applies also to 7, 8, 12, 13 and 18.
The image of 17 is (most probably) that of god Mars, holding a trophy. The (latin) text is not very distinguishable anymore and with my poor latin I cannot make much of it, but most probably there is a mention of place where the coin was struck, a "title" of the god, or a phrase of the vistory to which the trophy should apply. This should determine that the coin can have been struck by just one country

Not that old I`m affraid. From August II you won`t find probably any Polish coins (as hardly any has been struck) but only Saxonian coins or prussian counterfaits.
In time of Sigismund (III Wasa I guess you mean) many coins has been struck though and although I don`t have any spares myself, examples of those coins are the easiest to get from all the Polish pre-1795 coins. But you could try to buy something from his reign on ebay. The coins of that ruler are not very expensive, If you care to pay ~$5-10 you could get a (mediocre) small coin.

As that Elizabethian coin is my oldest English one, I have nbothing from the period of Henry VIII

I didn`t knew that it had a specific name so no.

hmm, well, still unknown is 1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18... that`s a lot. Well, extra hints...
1. The coin shows San Marco, the patron of a certain city that originally was the whole country.
6. The sitting-lion on the coin represents the national sign of that asian country.
7.& 8. Cannot really give a hint here, as if I give it, I cannot myself confirm anyone`s further guesses, as my own idea about those pieces is only very global...
11. Today that country does not use real money at all.
12. All coins of that country from ~3th till ~early 20th century look more or less that way.
13. The name of the coin - silver siglos - is very specific for that ancient country only.
14. Zeelandia was not a country in 1762, but it has been a county before 15th century. In 18th century it was one of the provinces of an united entity though - I cannot make it easier than that
15. The text on the coin (and in the hint) makes clear what it is actually... Solidus is the name of the coin, CIVI.RIG. determines the country (what does CIVI. mean?), 52 determines the year - 1652.
Especially a Swede should know where this coin is from as a Swedish queen was ruling it at that time.
16. well, brandeburg tor and stars in a circle... the first determines the country, the second the first half of the coin-name...
18. On the other side there is a figure that should represent a knight.

 

[unmerged(6977)]

1) Venice?

6) Cambodia or Thailand.

I think.

 

[unmerged(502)]

#18 is Russian wire money from 15-17th centuries. If you had a better picture I'll tell you which reign this one is from.

 

[Kasperus]

Originally posted by Caramel
1) Venice?

6) Cambodia or Thailand.

I think.

Venice is correct. Any idea of the period?

Cambodia and Thailand both wrong though close

 

[Kasperus]

Originally posted by webbrave
#18 is Russian wire money from 15-17th centuries. If you had a better picture I'll tell you which reign this one is from.

Here you go. I scanned it in a higher resolution.

 

[unmerged(502)]

ok, this is Peter Alexeevich (AKA Peter the Great). The date should be in the back of this coin (in slavic letters). This is definetely 1690s (coins like that were not made post-1700 - this is when Russian adopted regular coinage) and cant be pre-1689 or even pre-1696 ( I need to check if coins struck in 1689-1696 have Peter's name on them). If you scan the back, I'll tell you the date - it should be two letters at the bottom.

 

[Kasperus]

hmm, Peter the Great? I thought it was Alexey`s... but I`m not really great with identifying of Wire money either

the other side, wonder if you can make anything of it though...

 

[Apollon]

without having read any answers or consulting any sources, here are my guesses:


1. venice

2. spain 1778

3. czechoslovakia 1979 50 crowns

4. sweden 1 crown

5. england sometime under queen elizabeth's reign (Elisabeth Dei Gratia Regina)

6. thailand

7.

8.

9. german empire, 1874, 1 mark

10. australia 1984, 1 dollar

11. cuba 1969

12.

13.

14.

15.

16. germany 2001, 50 cents

17.

18.

19. bavaria

20. austria-hungary, 3 kreuzer or heller

 

[Kasperus]

Originally posted by Apollon
without having read any answers or consulting any sources, here are my guesses:


1. venice

2. spain 1778

3. czechoslovakia 1979 50 crowns

4. sweden 1 crown

5. england sometime under queen elizabeth's reign (Elisabeth Dei Gratia Regina)

6. thailand

7.

8.

9. german empire, 1874, 1 mark

10. australia 1984, 1 dollar

11. cuba 1969

12.

13.

14.

15.

16. germany 2001, 50 cents

17.

18.

19. bavaria

20. austria-hungary, 3 kreuzer or heller

Well, without reading answers nor resources certainly not bad . So, I guess you have some knowledge of coins?

1,2,3 correct,
4 is sweden but should be 1 ore
5 correct
6 wrong but close (what do you all have with thailand people?)
9, 10, 11 correct and 11 you`re the 1st
16 correct and somehow you`re also the first
19 is wrong, it is a Polish Ort (12 grosz) from 1622, country and date guessed already by Mikael though.
20. is correct, and it is 3 kreuzer

This leaves only 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 unanswered.
6 is NOT thailand
7, 8, 12, 13 and 15 didn`t even receive any guesses, for 12 and 15 that`s surprising
17 is certainly NOT Canada and not France

 

[Apollon]

no, i don't know the faintest about coins. i'm just looking at the symbols and letters.

nr. 6 could be burma then?

what do you think does the figure on 17 represent? he looks either like odysseus (ulysses) with his dog, argos, or like herakles (hercules) with his club.

12 could, in theory, be turkish. they had coins with holes in them (so you could wear them as jewelry). but i can't make heads nor tails (excuse the pun ) of the symbols. i can't even tell whether they are symbols or writing.
however, my guess is that it's probably japanese writing, so i'll go with nippon.

14 is then maybe the states general of the netherlands?

15: i looked in google for "civi.rig." and i have the answer now. but that would be cheating i guess, so i'm not posting it.
there is also an image of a much better minted specimen of what appears to be the same coin.
side note: google came up with only one (1) result.