Zeitschrift für Numismatik, vol. 22 — 1895

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important phenomena characterize the meaning of the work for patriotic history and antiquity, and the Royal Academy of Sciences deserves the greatest thanks for the aid also granted in this volume. — Afterwards District Judge Dannenberg also gave this lecture There is also a perfectly preserved silver necklace consists of several twisted rings braided together, and years ago with coins from the 11th century was found. — Mr. v. d. Hey, the one from Kur- Prince Joachim I in Frankfurt a. 0. struck gold guilders with the image of Saint Paul and placed such pieces from 1518 and 1519 in the original, as well as a cast of a guilder 1516 before. He then showed the one he had in the previous session discussed half thaler elector recently acquired by him Joachim II from 1541.

Mr. Rear Admiral Strauch showed a picture of one recently released private medal in memory of the German-Russian trade agreement, on which the first The picture of the current Reich Chancellor is shown, and then gave a lecture on the coins of Zanzibar. These have been around since 1299 AD. H. (1881/82) minted and consist of pieces of gold at 5 riyals (dollars), e.g. Currently 20 rupees worth, in silver to 1 rial, e.g. Z. 2 9 /a Rupee worth, and out copper paissas worth the 1/4 anna pieces of the East Indian Rupee System. As far as can be determined, 5 rial* and 1 rial- Pieces only in 1299 d. H. (1881/82), namely 2119 or 1000 pieces. (2 1/, Rial pieces are not minted been.) The golden five-rials have a diameter of 22 mm, the silver rials are 38 mm, the internal The writing is on - with the exception of the value numbers 5 and 1 Both coins have the same denomination, namely: 5 (1) Rial, coin of SaKd in 1299 and: With God, Sultania Said son of Burg- hosch's son of Sultan Hadzar. Have the latter inscription also the copper paissas, located on the other side a scale as a sign of a good, correct coin and the year. Copper coins have been around almost every year since 1882 Heaton was minted in Birmingham and in Brussels, the gold and silver coins in Brussels in 1882. Mr. Strauch also discussed

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the coins that were issued in 1890 for those under French patronage The Comoros archipelago (which now has the name "Sultanate d'Anjouan") at the instigation of the island Gross-Comoro exploiting society and under approval of the Undersecretary of State for the Oolonia of October 11, 1894 were minted in Paris. The coins are in five francs and Ten and five centimes pieces, of the same fineness and Weight and dimensions same as the coins of this value French system. The five franc piece has on the front the Arabic transcription: Said Ali, son of Said Omar. May the May God protect him; in the field in clumsy collaboration position an Arabian dagger, a saber, a bow, two Arrows, a revolver and a cannon barrel, on the right Side of the field the year of minting (1308 d.H.) 1890. The back has the inscription at the top: Protectorate of Glory rich French government and in a wreath of palm trees and laurel branch the French and Comorian flags, there- down: Anghezidia dynasty. May God protect her. In the ab- cut the mint mark A (Paris). The ten and five centimes Pieces have almost no weapons composition the same inscriptions as the five franc piece. — Mr. City- baurath Bratring spoke after his speech at the festival Essay about the Pomeranians published in the society's publication Duke coins of the 16th century about the coins of Duke Philipp Julius von Wolgast 1592 - 1625, by his Lecture by presenting a large series, some of them extremely high rare character of this gentleman explained. Duke Philipp Julius has left us very numerous coins: ducats, gold guilders, Doppelthaler, Thaler, its parts and numerous smaller ones Varieties down to the penny, whole, half, quarter and eighth Deaththaler. As stated in the lecture, it is subject to was acknowledged at the closing meeting, there is no doubt that this goes far beyond the needs of his small country Coinage is mainly a financial issue, albeit one that is quite questionable. was a measure that was practiced almost everywhere at the time. No imperial estate was afraid to exchange good coins to melt down and use ever smaller amounts of money for it admit.

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Meeting of July 2, 1894.

The chairman, Councilor Friedensburg, dedicated to the recently deceased Pastor Stenzel, the head of the Ducal Coin Cabinet in Dessau, an obituary and praised both the great kindness of his nature like his contributions to science. Those present rose from their seats in honor of the deceased. — Mr. District Judge Dannenberg presented several unknown maid found near Beizig over a number of years Burgher bracteates from the 12th century with the image of Saint Moritz, so-called Moritzpfennige, before and further 12 other such unknown locations. He took this as an opportunity? about these so numerous and generally frequent to spread the coming coin class, which is widely is taken that it was not from the archbishops and in Magde- castle itself, but in Halle by guardians (the burgraves Querfurter gender) or from mint tenants or from the City of Magdeburg, which is presumably a lease or A lien on the coin is attributed, has been struck, and spoke out against the admissibility of all these views. The rights of the powerful archbishops would not be vested have usurped the beams on the shields of some The warrior depicted in these pieces could be taken into account the time in question (first half of the 12th century) hundred), cannot be viewed as the Querfurt coat of arms, but should be understood as the shield fitting, and against Halle as the sole minting place for these coins speaks to the surrounding it was said that some of them would return to Magdeburg as a mint and that two were named by the name of Halle Pieces are present, one of which is the image of the Saint Moritz, the other that of Archbishop Wich- man and his name. A very similar thing also applies Relationship in the neighboring Halberstadt, where the only with Bracteates bearing the name of St. Stephen those marked with the name of the bishop far outweigh without anyone having thought of it yet to deny the bishops. The speaker, without denying, explained that a number of coins may have been struck in Halle

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it is, especially with regard to the Magdeburg Mint beings of the 11th century, found it inappropriate to use the Moritz to withdraw pennies from the archbishops would rather be in see them the usual Magdeburg money, while the Bracteates with the archbishop's picture or name special, They owe their existence to reasons that are, of course, unknown to us could, however, without them all being considered commemorative coins need to address. — Mr. Dr. Weil discussed this recently discovered manuscript of a volume of v. Madaic Thaler cabinets, which are characterized by a large number of clean shelves education. — Mr. Government Councilor Friedensburg placed samples of a recent coin find from the 11th century, which, alongside coins from Goslar, Hildesheim, Münster (half of an as yet unknown denarius from Bishop Burkard) are particularly very interesting, some of them not yet contains published Dutch coins. It's hope present that the entire discovery of science will be saved. — Mr. Stadtbaurath Bratring was in his line Lectures on the newer Pomeranian coins on Herzog Philip II of Stettin (1606 to 1618), of whom in contrast There are a lot of large coins compared to its predecessor, but only two Varieties small (dimes and threes) are available. Philip II was a versatilely educated and art-loving prince under him is also known to be the famous “Pomeranian art cabinet” (in the Museum of Decorative Arts). As a result, draw His coins are as much about beautiful work as they are about it diversity of the allegorical representations attached to it statements and sayings. We know gold from him guilders (not ducats) from 1612, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 (the latter coined on the 100th anniversary of the Reformation) and 18, partly with the coat of arms, partly with David with the sheep (“Ego tuli te de grege”), with a snail (“Lente sed attente'), with Samson and the lion ("De ore leonis") and others. m. The thalers, which also include doubles, triples, halves and quarter thalers and one of them the mint master Daniel Sievers mentions three different views Bust portrait and partly refer to the Reformation fixed, the death of the Duke, his stepmother Anna and his

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Brother George. They also often carry allegorical depictions positions. Finally there are still several medals up for grabs. memory of the Duke's unity with his brothers the Reformation festival and the death of the Duke. The majority of the pieces discussed are mostly very rare was made in originals from the speaker's collection the rest presented in illustrations.

Mr. Kontre-Admiral Strauch first discussed the Coins of Napoleon I from the period 1804 to 1808 and pointed after" that the apparent contradiction of their inscriptions: “Räpublique fran

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Image coins of Jahangir: gold (Mohurs) and silver coins (Rupees), on which all the images of the animal are individually circle are shown. The legend that these zodiacal dances Minted on the orders of the emperor's wife, Nür-dschehan are those who take power from their husband for one day have resigned, is resulting through the full eight years Dating of the coins as per Djehangir's own records statements refuted. The speaker placed plaster casts of the two rows of coins that represent the royal. Coin cabinet in just still has the completeness achieved by the British Museum

Meeting of September 3, 1894.

The chairman, Mr. Friedensburg Government Councilor, thought with warm words of the recently deceased member the company, the general v. Winterfeldt, who for many years participated in the meetings with enthusiasm throughout through his amiable nature the special veneration of members had acquired. Those present honored his companion memory by rising from the seats. Then Mr. stopped District Court tsrath Then enberg gave a longer lecture on the coin names appearing on medieval coins, which in Contrasts with the usage of modern times the rare exception take form. In the first centuries they were completely absent, but already in the eleventh we encounter the word several times "denarius" (once even in the German form: pening and once also in Nordic) but not only that the largest coin value minted at that time (7*0 of the diamond lingian pound), but in general every piece of money, the same a lot of what size and what metal. Those too one-sided coins, which have been around since the middle of the 12th century Bracteates beaten in Germany are referred to as "denarius": The traffic did not differentiate between the one and the two-sided coin. Since the middle of the 13th year- In the 1000s, coins became more diverse. In 1252 Gold pieces worth 1,000 were first struck in Florence 240 silver pennies, i.e. i. a pound, according to their stamp, the Florentine lily, called Florenen, and since 1258 in France under Louis IX Silver coins worth

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12 pfennigs (a solidus or shilling), the “Turnosen” were called because they had the inscription to designate the mint: TVRONVS CIVIS wore. They were also called denarii grossi or grossi par excellence, because they were significantly thicker than the previous previous coins. Both types of coins quickly became common popular and therefore much copied elsewhere, the Floren, sometimes called FLORenus, throughout Western Europe, the Turnose in the Netherlands, Rhineland and Westphalia mostly with the original Turonus civis. Same value with The Turnosen (12 Pf.) were the coins given to King Wenceslaus II. of Bohemia in Prague since 1300 and his successors after him with the inscription GROSSI PRAGENSES characterize Hesse, from to which both the German word Groschen and the folk The expression “Boehm” can be written down. These pennies that are inside result of constant deterioration of the material used for their minting Metals continued to decline in value and were first used Meissen, then in the rest of Germany, often with the Grossn's drawing, reprinted and formed the main part Means of payment. In southern Germany (Neumarkt, Nuremberg, Oettingen) and once in Trier under Archbishop Werner (solidus novus). an already very undervalued piece) they call the up- writings sometimes solidus, while the German shilling does not occurs. Floren also lost the penny Germany gained more and more value and went by name on the Rhine back to less than three quarters of the original, so that the “Rhineland guilder” now has a special coin value next to the full-weight or Hungarian guilder, which comes with that of the transcription of the Venetian pieces of this type (Sit tibi, Ghriste, datus, quem tu regis, iste ducatus). the words “ducats”. But this name comes only appeared on coins in the 16th century. The guilders are finally also decisive for the thaler coinage. when counteracting the increase in silver yield At the end of the Middle Ages the value of the Rhineland was increased to mint guilders in a piece of silver called a “guilder” groschen M: a thaler from Archbishop Johann of Bremen Accordingly, Yon 1511 expressly describes itself as Moneta nova Status floreni rhenensis. This is around the same time

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Expression of the market weight of the Wendish cities in large Silver pieces with the inscription: Status (semis etc.) marce Lubicensis. In addition to these few large coins, there are notably From France there are numerous smaller varieties with inscriptions names that occur: duplex turonus Francie, Turonus simplex, parvus Turonus, moneta duplex, also with added alba, moneta regalis and duplex regalis, burgensis fortis and novus, obolus, also with simplex or in memory to the Turonus civis meaninglessly connected with civis, meal petita, dosini delphina (Humbert II of the Dauphin 6 1333/49) and others. m. In Germany we also find small pennies: grossiculi in Cologne, parvi Pragenses and Misnenses, but not that Obulus, but probably the German heller on a Neisse coin from King Wenceslas IV's time. Of the names given to the people There were numerous types of coins (Botdrager, Bauerngroschen, Snaphahn and others), only a few have been immortalized on coins: The Dutch have “denarius simplex nominatus grifonus”. and Brabant griffin penny Maximilian L and his Son Philipp to the inscription, next to it is a “duplex Patardus fabricatus in Brabancia". Finally there are a few left very few coin denominations should be mentioned: tercia ducalis and quarta tercenarii in Sicily, in Spain and Acre the Pugeza, in Portugal the Cruzatus, plus Anglicus Franc- fordensis and Sterlingus Trevirensis (Archbishop Werner). German pieces minted according to English patterns. In the The meeting was, among other things, the question is discussed, from which This is probably the reason why the coin name is so often in the plural form (denarii, grossi, parvi, etc.) instead, as one would expect, appear in the singular. The meeting tended to be of the opinion that that this is not an oversight on the part of the die cutter or one Language inconsistency could be due to the fact that this usage is already there early in various mints (e.g. in Jever already in 11th century, at Jakza in the 12th century). let and in Prague on otherwise perfectly minted coins year- been detained for hundreds of years. — Mr. Kontre- Admiral Strauch discussed North American coinage following a recently published book by G. Evans, complete this in a way that is worthy of gratitude and emulation

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and precise information about the entire operation of the mint There are places in the United States, the procedure at Melting, cleaning, testing and minting of gold and silver explained and a great wealth of statistical, historical, contains biographical and other news. Added are illustrations of all those minted by the United States Coins, among which the greatest rarity is the silver dollar 1804 can be mentioned. An eagle is also seen in the book who was in the New York Mint for six years as a mo- dell was thought to be the die cutter and he was so tame was that he flew out freely and in the evening before the end of the day coin returned home. The speaker then discussed further the new ones, *based on the law of February 6, 1892 minted coins of Ceylon. They point to one side a talipot palm, on the other the value in English, Sinhalese and Tamul languages and represent the values '/<» 7s > 1) 5, 10, 25, 50 cents so that the coin is 50 cents is equivalent to half a rupee, so strikingly so the whole of the series is not represented.

Meeting of October 1, 1894.

Mr. Government Councilor v. Kühlewein already put it in the meeting of July 2nd. J. from Dr. Because mentioned alleged handwritten addendum to v. Madais Tbaler cabinet in front. The speaker is informed by the descendants of the praised collector and researcher in gracious consideration come the insight into the 77, which consists of loose sheets Manuscript filling cardboard cases was permitted and it has it turned out that it was not an addendum, as had been suspected several times before, but about the Handwriting of the Thaler Cabinet itself. Each sheet is keeps an extremely clean drawing, then the description of the coin in question, the latter from v. Madai's hand made himself touching. A section of this extremely interesting manuscript, But that is only possible given the current state of numismatics is of relatively little scientific value, was presented.

Mr. Government Councilor Friedensburg discussed one so far

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Silesian denarius, which was only known in one example with a boar's head and a striding eagle, which you always used to see to Henry III. from Glogau. One to the speaker The recently received second piece of this kind proves this Erroneousness of this assumption by the inscription Ii DVX SLÖSIQ — instead of, as had been added until now: Glogovie — ensures. With regard to the boar's head, it can be assumed that that the coin in Schweidnitz was made by Heinrich von Jauer, the second son of Bolko I, who first shared with his brothers sam has coined, has been beaten. — Mr. v. d. Hey there placed a number of medals on Brandenburg military leaders before, especially those with the well-successful ones artistically executed portraits by Derfflinger, Otto Christopher V. Sparr, Friedrich v. Schomburg and Mikrander. Plus one with the portrait of Marlborough as a souvenir to the battle of Hochstädt, where, as is well known, branden- Burgh troops fought under Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau, and two others with the portraits of Counts Wladislaus and Johann Ernst v. Sparr, the former sergeant general, the latter Colonel in the Imperial Service. The same speaker showed also the 1706 to commemorate the wedding of the crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia with Sophie Dorothea Gold coins of 1, V and Vi ducat struck by Hanover with the portraits of the bride and groom and the inscription: Primi Regni Prussiae Heredis Conjugium Felix and put a recent a quarter ducat piece that he had acquired, which he owned small row. It has the same back but shows on the main page the half-length portraits of the crown prince and his Father's with the most conspicuous inscription: Frid. Wilh. Rex Borussia. The meeting tended to believe that you can do it here with an oversight of the die cutter have done.

Mr Kontre-Admiral Strauch has already shown this at the June meeting d. J. mentioned five franc pieces Comoros Islands, which is on the main page in a childish version a number of weapons, such as revolvers, spears, arrows, daggers, cannon* everything in the same size, represents, furthermore that gold five dollar piece of the late Sultan of Zanzibar,

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Said ibn Burghosh, and two under the administration of the Lord v. Möllendorf minted Korean silver coins, on the outside similar to the Chinese eel, but instead of the square one hole on the back with an enamel plate, which is intended to prevent counterfeiting. These coins proved as very impractical. Attaching the enamel plate made the production of the coins extraordinarily expensive of the almost completely pure silver used They also disappeared from circulation in a short time. Later are with modern embossing machines in the capital Söul Copper coins of 20 and 10 mun a were minted Stamp made by the stamp cutter Held in Magdeburg stir; This coinage was also discontinued very soon. In a recently published decree of the King of Korea However, a new regulation of the coinage system is in prospect been. — Captain Brause put the very rare one Thalerklippe, which Albrecht Graf von Mansfeld built in 1547, presumably to pay his mercenaries, had it minted, as well the Doppelthaler and Thaler, which were bought by the Anabaptists in 1534 was struck in Münster, and read the ones based on these pieces relevant sections from his forthcoming work about emergency and siege coins.

Meeting of November 5, 1894.

Mr. Friedensburg Councilor put two of the same rare and beautiful medals for famous Silesians. The one represents the man who was born in 1576 and died in 1622 Breslau patrician Nikolaus Haunold, who was imperial in Vienna The councilor and chamber secretary lived, demonstrated and demonstrated in a lively way Depiction of the portrait with a large ruff and grace symbol chain decorated, while the back sees the Haunold Coat of arms in a delicate frame. The second piece is in honor of the Breslau doctor Johannes Krato von Kraftheim shaped, a man of humble origins, who not only about medical science as the first explorer of the "Pest" has great merit, but also the collection and preservation of Luther's table speeches. Born In 1519 he initially devoted himself to theology, but then left

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switched to medicine, became Breslau's city physicist and personal physician Emperor Ferdinand and his successors. Despite his evan- of his religious faith, he knew he had the affection of the emperors, namely the mild Maximilian II, so that his His epitaph can rightly boast: Caesaribus placuisse tribus non ultima laus est, and there is often the friendly welcome actions of Protestants in those times were due to his influence- led. He died in 1585, not without finally being un- to have experienced the stability of the prince's favor. There is yier medals with his portrait: one shows on the reverse the portrait of Emperor Maximilian, the other Kratos coat of arms, Finally, two have a representation of Samson the lion forces down, and the transcription: Jrae modereris et ori, the possibly has a medical significance, since one is in old age Time violently occurring illnesses under the image of a lion symbolized. One of these medals is quite fleeting minted and is located in the cabinet of the city of Wroclaw other is a fine cast in the author's possession and shows on the arm section the previously unexplained ones, on the manufacturer the letter AN to be referred to in the piece. — Mr. Kontre- Admiral Strauch made some announcements about prices, those on the Frankfurt a. M. auction that took place Books collection of the deceased member of the society, Adolf Meyer, were achieved, and then showed some exceedingly Sea coins of unusual minting: one and Two cents from Liberia (1847 and 1862) with recessed Writing, the coins of the Congo state of 10, 5, 2 and 1 cent and the Hong Kong one-mil piece, the latter with a round hole in the middle. Finally he submitted the letter from the British East Africa Company minted coins of 1, 7a > 7* rupees and 2 annas in silver and l U Anna (Paissa) in copper, all of which Name the city of Mombasa. — Mr. Ward, an assistant Brinkmann showed the one that had just been published by the German New Guinea Company minted five and two mark pieces with valuables gift and something strongly "flattered" bird of paradise, whose in contrast to our East African coins on the German coinage was minted by the assembly was happily welcomed. — Mr. Stadtbaurath Bratring said

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continued his lecture on the newer Pomeranian coins and discussed the character of Bogislaw's sons XIIL, Franz (1600 until 1620) and Ulrich (1618-1620). We own Franz one extremely rare gold guilder from 1618 and one not less rare thalers, as well as his burial coins Dear Anna Maria and the Duke himself and small coins from double shillings to threes, as well as two beaten ones, as well raw and rare medals, one with his, the other with his and his wife, a née Duchess of Saxony, Breast images. Ulrich didn't give us any gold coins, but next to them his own and his wife's funeral coins only one half and a quarter thaler from 1622, as well as a whole Number of some very interesting and rarely smaller Leave coins of different denominations. Most of the The speaker was able to use the spoken pieces from his collection present, in particular the thaler and the medals from Franz. Mr. Dr. Bahrfei dt reported on one on the Feldmark Leissow mill near Göritz a. 0., Frankfurt a. district 0., recently upscale great silver find. The mill owner Grabe came across an urn while plowing, which unfortunately was smashed, but upon closer examination the contents turn out to be a treasure of about 20 pounds of silver. The find is in his remained together throughout its entirety and will soon become one scientific processing in a special font drive, the coinage part of which is written by the lecturer will be. The treasure contained around 2100 grams of hacksilver, 1900 grams of jewelry, 6000 grams of coins! The jewelry is composed of thirteen braided, decorated Closing neck rings of different strengths, one massive arm ring, various temple, finger and ear rings wrestling, closing parts of belts, the well-known ones, in such Finds often found filigree jewelry, wire lichens, ornaments with fantastic shapes, including animals heads, horses, etc. - all in silver. The coins The find, estimated at around 6,000 pieces, goes as far as the second decade of the XL century down and enter clear picture of the money in circulation at the time. As the oldest

Coins included one denarius of the Roman emperor

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Domitian, Marcus Aurelius, his co-regent Lucius Verus, the Crispina, wife of the Emperor Commodus, from that time from 81-192 AD. In the finds of the X. and XI. year- In the 100s there is no occurrence of Roman imperial denarii rare, like the finds from Obersitzko, Stolp, Kawallen, Ragow, Schöningen, Ra witsch, Yossberg and others. testify. Byzan Tinian coins were found from Constantine X and Romanus II. (948-959), John! Zimisces (969 - 976), Basilius IL and Constantine XI (976-1025). There were oriental coins

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present dirhems of the dynasties of the Abbasids, Samanids, Hamdanids, Merwanids, Okailids, Bujids and the Khane the Volga Bulgarians. The North contributed through denarii from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England; further non- German countries are represented by Poland, Bohemia, Pavia, Verona. Of course, the main stem is formed the German denarii and obols from the following countries and Mints: Remiremont, Metz, Toul, Verdun, Flanders, St. Omer, Liège, Maestricht, Cologne, Trier, Deventer, Thiel, Corvey, Dortmund, Saxony. From the latter landscape there are Next is the group of Wend (Saxon) pfennigs, the oldest Varieties up to and including the Magdeburger imitations to call with the saying In nomine Domini Amen, but then, as the main mass of the find, several Pound Otto Adelheid denarii. Regarding this may be at the The burning question is whether it was founded by Otto I (936-73) or Otto III. (983 - 1002), it should be mentioned that many hundreds of... Type with cross and church building, only a few denarii the head, no Obol with the head, two pieces with AMEN next to the inscription Dei gracia Rex, only one piece with AMEN are only present on the back side. Saxon dynasts Denarii appear in the finds of Count Eilard, Count Wichmann IIL, Countess Adela; furthermore those of Bernhard I of Saxony, von Magdeburg, Quedlinburg, Halberstadt, Hildesheim, Mundburg, Stade, Mainz, Speier, Worms, Würzburg, Meissen, Breisach, Strasbourg, Villingen (?), Chur, Konstanz, Zurich, Augsburg, .Regensburg, Cham, Nabburg, Neuburg, Salzburg, finally a large number of denarii that are still being deciphered and await further determination. As with the size

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of the treasure to be expected, which is one of the greatest of this period heard that have ever been examined he has an impressive number of extremely rare coins and not few completely new phenomena came to light. It's not possible, even just a part of these pieces, which are from the previous were presented in their originals at the meeting, to be reproduced here, rather this must be stated at the beginning. The above-mentioned processing remains reserved elsewhere. The Excavation of the silver treasure from Leissower Mühle Dr. Bahrfeldt in the period from around 1010 to 1015. This assumption is justified by the fact that the find contained coins from Jaromir of Bohemia (1003-1012), Theodoric of Metz (1005-1046), Bruno of Augsburg (1006-1029), Adalbert of Trier (1008 until 1016), from Heinrich IL only royal coins (1002-1014), while none of the latter as emperor (1014—1024), either none from Canute of England (1016-1035), Ulrich of Bohemia (1012-1037) were present. So the treasure has to go 1008 may have come into the earth, but, especially because of the missing, otherwise not rare imperial coins of Henry II. not buried much after 1014; this results in his Salvage around 1010 - 1015 and at the same time what happened can never be determined from the pieces of jewelry alone the most recent time limit. — Following this lecture Mr. District Court Councilor Dannenberg made announcements about the part of the same find that he examined and arrived at the same opinion regarding the burial time. He then explained that this discovery was also correct. ity of the allocation of the Adelheidspfennige to Otto HI. confirm, because because there are thousands of these coins here in completely the same massive, neither different in minting nor condition If the specimens are represented, they could not possibly be in the period before Otto I's death.

Meeting of December 3, 1894.

Captain Brause presented two rare points: one, in silver, at the siege of Magdeburg in 1551 from the silverware of the citizens to pay for the Mercenaries hired to defend the city were shaped and raised

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the back with an apparently contemporary Low German Inscription to commemorate that stormy time others, from copper, on the occasion of July 23, 1676 Dresden shooting festival, where the Electress Magdalene Sibylle became "Bird Queen" in her This type is probably unique, as the stamp is after impression some gold and silver specimens during the production of the the first piece of copper is said to have cracked. — Mr. Rear Admiral Strauch showed a Japanese interest note for 20 sen (= Vs Dollar), which has a delicate arrangement and beautiful execution the Japanese coats of arms (chrysanthemum, dragons, peacocks etc.). — Mr. Friedensburg Government Councilor pronounced the coins of the Wroclaw Prince-Bishop John V the Hungarian Turzo family (1506 to 1520). Man I knew of groschen from this gentleman from the year 1506 up to and including 1509 and a thaler-shaped embossed medal from 1508, two copies of which are in the imperial coin cabinet in Vienna and in the municipal collection in Breslau and probably on the occasion of the stay of the Bohemian King Vladislaw was published in Neisse. Also It was known that the bishop died on August 31, 1515 Emperor Maximilian received the right to mint gold coins but doubted whether he had made use of it no ducat from him had yet been known. Well is this year, supposedly in a Dutch find, A ducat from Johannes Turzo, from 1513, turned up and ends up in the speaker's collection. That doubt- The real piece shows that presented in the later privilege written embossing: coat of arms and St. John, the latter with the Inscription MVNVS CAESARIS MAXIMILIANI, and is probably a sample, minted in anticipation of the imperial approval grace; We know from a letter from the diplomatic officer Agents of the bishop in Vienna, Kaspar Ursinus Velius, that Privilege was only granted after long efforts. pre- were placed apart from the ducat and an imprint of the medal a rich selection of pennies, including also the extremely rare pieces from 1506 with the saint in whole figure and respectively the long one that shares the transcription

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coat of arms. — Mr. Stadtbaurath Bratring gave his lectures about the Pomeranian ducal coins by discussing the coarse varieties of Bogislaw XIV. This Duke, the last of his tribe, ruled in Rügenwalde since 1606, and since 1620 Stettin, was also Bishop of Kaminin since 1622; he died on March 10, 1637, and was not until 1654, after the end of the Disputes over his inheritance, at the expense of Elector Friedrich William of Brandenburg and Queen Christine of Sweden ceremoniously buried. Despite the difficult times, he is his government falls, one of the richest princes in money. We own gold guilders from him from 1628 and 1629 with his Bust portrait, 22/ coat of arms, resp. Griffin, and ducats from 1631 and 1634 to 1636, as well as without year, all of which belong to the prince in full figure and the coat of arms, also Thaler from 1628 until 1637 in around 100 different stamps, all on the HJ. the bust, on the 22/ the coat of arms or the griffin showing. Among them stands out for its beauty and rarity- is a medal-like piece from 1635 depicting the Duke on horseback in front of a hall-like building and possibly obviously has a special historical significance however, is unknown to us. Doppelthaler come from 1633 and 34, half of 1628, 33, 34, 35 before, of the latter year also a quarter thaler. These pieces come from the coins places in Stettin, Rügenwalde and Köslin and are partly with the name letters of the iron cutter Ulrich Buttkau in Stettin (1633 to 63), Karsten Wilke in Köslin (1631) and the unknown G. T. (1628 to 37 and 1654). At The occasion of the burial in 1654 was also one large number of different commemorative coins of 1, vi ducat, 4, 3, 2, 1, 7* 7" and 7s thaler struck, of which one Partly the portrait of the Duke, others the Swedish and Brandenburg coat of arms, still others a skull and crossbones show other symbolic representations. Mr. Bratring once again clarified his presentation by presenting an usually complete series of coins discussed his collection. — Mr. Dr. Nützel reported on the oldest Mohammedan coinage in Persia. From the year In 635 AD the Khalifs began conquering Persia, which had been in power since 226 AD

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AD had been under the rule of the Sassanids conquer, in 643 the entire empire was conquered and the last Sassanid Jezdegerd expelled. However, the Arabs retained the usual coin type (bust portrait with winged tiara, Rf. Feueraltar) as well as the Pehlewi language of the transcriptions, only they put a short religious formula in Arabic script added, they also gave the dating according to the Arabic period- invoice. A progress in the Arabization of the Persian Coins came under the governor el-Haddjah ibn Jusuf one who wrote his name in Arabic script and that complete Muslim confession of faith attached. In Year 81 d. H. = 700 AD, these Khalifian Pehlewi hear coinage, with Abdulmelik's coinage reform also taking place in Persia was carried out. Only in the province of Taberistan did it last the old style continued for about a hundred years. The ones there ruling dynasts (the so-called Ispehbedes) were only in loose dependence on the Khalifa and influenced Sassa- Nidian type continues with its own calendar, which 651 AD begins, the year in which, according to the With the murder of Jezdegerd the Sassanid Empire was completely destroyed. This coinage lasted until around 760 AD, from then onwards Taberistan is administered by Arab governors, who The type and the chronology remained the same, but their name remained Pehlewi, later added in Arabic script. With that In the year 794 this imprint also ceases, from 806 we have it oldest purely Arabic coin from Taberistan preserved, where, however From then on it was only minted very rarely. The lecture was done by presenting a large number of plaster casts based on the originals from the Royal Coin Cabinet. — Mr. A. v. d. Heyden put part of it on the big one Elector-related medals from his collection. to- next a small series of cast medals, further several chased ones of Dutch origin, as well as seven Medals, a double thaler and six thalers for victory near Fehrbellin, some of them with a depiction of the battle, which also shows the death of stable master Froben, as well as six Medals on the death of the Elector. — Mr. Dr. Bahr feldt reported on two coin discoveries that helped him

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search: 1) the discovery of Gross-Kordshagen near Stralsund, containing Pomeranian and Mecklenburg Witten, including a particularly notable one from Greifswald Witten with the head on both sides, no failure, but a completely new phenomenon; 2) the denarius find from Brandenburg a. H., consisting of approx. 800 pieces from the Brandenburg region Denarii, mixed in with some of the neighboring countries. The coins range from Johann IL to Waldemar. The The find must have been buried in the first fifth of the 14th century.

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