GERMANY THIENGEN pfennig circa 1350 AD
$75.00
GERMANY, THIENGEN, pfennig, circa 1350 AD, Obverse: head with conical hat L between T-E, Reverse: bracteate, square, silver, 17mm, 0.34g, Berger-2469v,VF
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Description
The type of this coin imitates the contemporary coinage of the Bishop of Basel.
Thiengen (Tiengen) is now Waldshut-Tiengen in southwestern Germany on the Swiss border.
The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of anarchy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.
By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.
