Poland City View Taler

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Poland City View Taler by regandon on 02 Feb, 2010 22:28
This is a Polish City View Taler. The city of Thorn on fire. The obverse detail is just amazing.

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Reply #1 by walmann on 02 Feb, 2010 22:36
That is some detail there, the ships, especially those going down the river add so much to the event being depicted.
Reply #2 by Zantetsuken on 03 Feb, 2010 00:24
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
Reply #3 by BCNumismatics on 03 Feb, 2010 01:03
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 .

Aidan.