(sold for $23.0)

1660, Nuremberg (Free City). Early Brass Token (Rechenpfennig) Coin. Astrology!

Mint Period: around 1618-1660
Denomination: Rechenpfennig (Token)
Reference: Neumann 32360. var. Rare!
Condition: Pierced, otherwise a nice VF.
Mint Place: Nuremberg (as free City within the Holy Roman Empire).
Diameter: 27.6mm
Material: Brass
Weight: 4gm

Obverse: Astrological symbols (Jupiter & Libra) surrounded by star formations. Sun to left, moon to right, fire below. Mint master`s initias (c 4 k) in exergue.
Legend: COLEVM * NON * SOLVM *
Exergue: C 4 K

Reverse: A hand emerging from a cloud, holding a lighting above monster (crocodile?), which is walking toward a crowned crown and scepter with fleur-de-lis.
Legend: FAMAM . EXTENDERE . FACTIS .
Exergue: MON . OTIO

Bid with Confiedence!

Nuremberg is a city situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. It is located about 170 kilometres north of Munich. The cultural flowering of Nuremberg in the 15th and 16th centuries made it the center of the German Renaissance. In 1525, Nuremberg accepted the Protestant Reformation, and in 1532, the religious Peace of Nuremberg, by which the Lutherans gained important concessions, was signed there. In 1632 during the Thirty Years' War, the city, occupied by the forces of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, was besieged by the army of Imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein.