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A coin die itself, has been the main motive for many collectors coins and medals. One of the most recent and famous one, is the Austrian 700 Years City of Hall in Tyrol coin, minted on January 29, 2003. The reverse side of the coin shows the Guldiner silver coin. However, the design is negative, representing a coin die, as a reference to Hall's ...
A Münzfuß (lit. ' coin foot ' or ' mint foot ') is an historical term, used especially in the Holy Roman Empire, for an official minting or coinage standard that determines how many coins of a given type were to be struck from a specified unit of weight of precious metal (the Münzgrundgewicht or coin base weight).
According to the Diet, 8 coins had to be struck from a Cologne Mark of alloy silver; however, the fineness was reduced to 14 lots 4 grains (888.9 ⁄ 1000). This mint standard was identical to the minting of 9 coins from the fine Cologne Mark, since in both cases the fine silver content was 25.98
The coinage metals comprise those metallic chemical elements and alloys which have been used to mint coins. Historically, most coinage metals are from the three nonradioactive members of group 11 of the periodic table: copper, silver and gold. Copper is usually augmented with tin or other metals to form bronze.
A special event in Saxon coin history was the establishment of a separate mint by Elector Frederick II in Colditz for his wife and the granting of the minting rights to her. As compensation for the high life estate promised to her as the Archduchess of Austria, she was granted the seigniorage : i.e. a certain share in it from the Colditz Mint.
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The high quality of Fatimid coinage was deliberately used as a political tool by al-Mu'izz: during the Fatimid conquest of Egypt in 969, one of the core promises of the Fatimid general Jawhar to the inhabitants of Fustat was the restoration of the quality of the coinage, [48] and even before the conquest itself, Fatimid dinars bearing the mint ...
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