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US Coins, World Coins, and More => World and Ancient Coins, Conder tokens and medals => Topic started by: regandon on February 02, 2010, 10:28:02 PM

Title: Poland City View Taler
Post by: regandon on February 02, 2010, 10:28:02 PM

This is a Polish City View Taler. The city of Thorn on fire. The obverse detail is just amazing.

Title: Re: Poland City View Taler
Post by: walmann on February 02, 2010, 10:36:42 PM

That is some detail there, the ships, especially those going down the river add so much to the event being depicted.

Title: Re: Poland City View Taler
Post by: Zantetsuken on February 03, 2010, 12:24:47 AM

Very interesting as is all of your coins. The obverse image is very interesting showing Thorun ablaze. The detailing is nicely rendered. I have a municipal coin (1/2 Groschen to be exact) from Thorun dating from the 15th century. Nothing as grandeous as yours though. Thanks for sharing.

~Daniel

Title: Poland city view 1 Thaler.
Post by: BCNumismatics on February 03, 2010, 01:03:05 AM

Regandon,
  That is a very unusual subject to depict on a coin.

Daniel,
  Here's an article about Thorn (or 'Torun' in Polish); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torun) .

Aidan.