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Germany. Nuremberg. Counterfeit coinage calculator with 102 full-size images of debased, prohibited coins. Ob zwar ein wohl-edler, gestrenger, fürsichtig und hochweiser Rath dieser …Reichs-Stadt Nürnberg an guter… Vorsorge und Warnung … vor denen neu ausgemüntzten allzuringhältigen Müntz-Sorten durch offene Edicta und beygefügte Abdrucke derselbigen nichts ermangeln lassen; so müssen … jedoch mit grossen Mißfallen vernehmen … von … abweichenden ungerechten Müntz-Sorten … in grosser Menge durch eigennützige Leute in hiesige Stadt gebracht und unter die gemeinen Leute verschoben … Und damit jederman wissen möge welches diejenige Sorten seyen, so einzuführen gäntzlich verboten seynd, als ist derselben Abdruck zu End dieses Mandats zu finden . Decretum in Senatu, den 23.Julii, A.1685. [Nuremberg, printed for the Senate, 1685]. Broadside in large folio made up of 2 parts (each 34 x 42.5 cm) Overall size 68 x 85cm. Printed on one side. 30 lines of text. Fraktur type. 1 large ornamental initial at beginning. Printed below the text are 102 woodcut illustrations of debased, prohibited coins, showing obverses and reverses (ranging in size from 4cm to 1cm in diameter), and with descriptive texts above. Coin ordinance issued by the governing senate of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg to warn its citizens of a large influx of debased coins brought into circulation by unscrupulous traders and to guard themselves against exchange loss. Dated 23rd July 1685, it refers to previous edicts of 1682, 1683, and 1684 prohibiting the circulation of untested, newly minted coins within the City and its surrounding territories. Debased coins, exchanged for full-value pieces at fairs and markets to make a profit, are pronounced liable to confiscation; traffickers will be forced to replace them with valid coinage to be rendered to the authorities; debased coins will be melted down. Repeated offenders and especially those deliberatedly importing large quantities of substandard coins will be severely punished. For easy recognition the obverses and reverses of 51 types of coin considered substandard are reproduced full size in nine rows beneath the text. The coins represented are Guldiner (silver coin - later known as Thaler, the ancestor of the dollar) or smaller currency as Kreutzer , Groschen , Patzen , Dreyer , minted in various German princely states, but also a few specimens from neighbouring countries : Switzerland (1), Hungary (1),Poland (4), and 4 other coins of unknown origin. The woodcuts are reproduced in strong impressions. Such broadsides were posted in markets, banks, and other public places to help traders authenticate the coins they received. In excellent condition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-18057096924
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