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Please help identify these old coins found in Germany?
They are specifically Spanish 2 Escudo Doubloons minted between 1651 to 1773, or modern replicas - as they are identical, it would seem to suggest the latter. This Amazon seller 🕑 appears to have ...
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Please help identify these old coins found in Germany?
Note As @Volker Siegel said in the comments:
Do not try to clean them any further. Dirt and patina may reduce the
value somewhat, but traces of cleaning much more so.
I am certain this is a ...
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Where was the County of Thurn und Taxis located?
Nowhere. As at the time they were introduced to that circle, they were not landed.
The family Tasso originated in Lombardy and made up their genealogy to include "were once rulers there". While the ...
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What does D·G·R·IMP·S·A·G·H·B·REX·A·A·B·L·D stand for?
The inscription LEOPOLDUS II D·G·R·IMP·S·A·G·H·B·REX·A·A·B·L·D abbreviates the following:
Leopoldus Secundus, Dei gratia Romanorum imperator semper augustus; Germaniae, Hungariae, Bohemiae rex; ...
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Why were so many female members of Hapsburg family named Maria something?
Because they are Catholic. No other reason. Doesn't matter if you are a boy or girl. It's very common practise to give children many baptismal names, including Maria. To both girls and boys. Perhaps ...
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Who were the successors of the Roman Empire?
Case for Italy, the Vatican, or both
Italy was the place where the Roman Empire originated and Rome is located. They still speak a language directly descended from Latin. Rome was the most important ...
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What are these "Papal States" in Germany after 1648?
Those were the ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire.
Germany as we know it today did not really exist in 1648 - the territories in question were part of the Holy Roman Empire, a highly ...
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Who or what were the Nassadista?
I started on this as it looked like a pleasant naval mystery. I'm providing a Summary Answer above, and below my method for reaching that conclusion as well as other relevant information. A lot of my ...
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Is the story of Peter Niers brutal execution authentic?
There is actually a contemporary account of Niers's crimes and execution. It can be found in a short pamphlet published shorty after his death:
"Warhafftige Newe Zeittungen / Erschröcklich unnd ...
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Why didn't continental eurotpeans aid the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Mercia, Northumbria, Wessex and East Anglia) against the invading Danes and Norse?
Who are they going to ask for help? How? What's in it for the possible helpers? The Vikings raided everywhere possible. From Iceland (which they colonized) to the Black Sea. The holy Roman empire didn'...
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Was there a law forbidding kingdoms in the Holy Roman Empire?
Originally, there were seven electors of the Holy Roman Emperor, three ecclesiastical, and four temporal. These were called "prince-electors," and were the highest ranking dignitaries of the Holy ...
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What is the term for a person who surveys the land and relays messages from a noble to his governed village?
You have somewhat answered your own question. The Reeve and Bailiff were essentially the same job in Medieval England.
The Reeve was a person that oversaw the land and crops and was in charge of the ...
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What language was spoken between Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian I
They likely spoke a combination of German and French. It's not entirely clear what they were speaking while teaching their respective mother tongues to each other - most likely Latin, maybe Flemish, ...
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Was there ever support for any persons outside of the empire to be elected Holy Roman Emperor?
The election of 1519 is the best example, as it was disputed between King Francis I of France and Charles, King of Spain and Archduke of Austria.
By "dispute" we mean "who has deeper bribing pockets"...
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Which is more correct, Carlos I or Carlos V?
I believe your subtext is incorrect - "most popular" is an inappropriate approach to take to correct usage. The correct usage, in either language, should be determined by which of the two roles is ...
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Did Gustavus Adolphus ever speak of making himself Emperor?
Actually papal consent was no longer required. On July 16, 1338, six of the seven electors met at Rhense and declared that election by a majority of electors was enough to make someone King of the ...
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What statuses did Black Africans have in the court and royal family of Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen and do their descendants survive?
In any large population there are likely to be a small proportion of people with highly exotic ancestry, being descended from people who lived far away a relatively short number of generations earlier....
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When did Nuremberg adopt the Gregorian Calendar?
According to this source, Nürnberg adopted the calendar in 1699:
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When did the Holy Roman Empire collapse?
The Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation) officially ceased to exist one fine day in August of 1806 when Francis II went to the Imperial Diet and resigned. He of course continued to be the Emperor ...
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How did member states of the Holy Roman Empire justify only including part of their land inside it?
The HRE was not a state in the modern sense, and neither were the components (as HorusKol) pointed out.
The various nobles had hereditary rights with regards to the Empire. They were tied to a title ...
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Were the "hussars" that Jan Sobieski used at the battle of Vienna actually elite troops?
Polish hussars are not the same as Russian hussars, entirely! Polish winged hussars are a kind of (super)heavy cavalry, while Russian hussars and hussars in other countries (Hungary, Germany etc) are ...
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Monarchies with built-in rotation
There is an example at least similar to what you search: the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück (Hochstift Osnabrück) in the Holy Roman Empire 1648-1803. After some chaos in the aftermath of the refomation ...
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When did the Holy Roman Empire collapse?
The Holy Roman Empire was a bit more unified during even its latest phase than many answers have said.
After the thirty ears war many German sates rallied to support he Emperor in the period ...
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When did Frankfurt am Main adopt the Gregorian Calendar?
Frankfurt adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1700.
When Frankfurt adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1700, the new date of the Frankfurt fair conflicted with the date of the Leipzig fair.
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Which is more correct, Carlos I or Carlos V?
Emperor Charles V had many realms and many royal and noble titles. So he has different numbers with his name in different Wikipedia lists of monarchs.
As king of the Castilian kingdoms, he was ...
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Would a common person in the 18th century have heard Mozart's music during his lifetime?
Mozart lived in Modern Europe (died 1791, soon after the French Revolution); not in medieval, obscure times. Mozart's music was sold (print music sheets), adapted, re-arranged, played by memory, ...
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How were the territories added to (and thus the limits set in) the Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was an institution with the emperor – and later the Diet (some Parliament) and other parts of the government – but it existed independently from ordinary kingdoms and overlapped ...
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How were the borders of the Holy Roman Empire established?
In another thread: How were the territories added to (and thus the limits set in) the Holy Roman Empire I have a post discussing not where were the borders of the Holy Roman Empire, but IF there were ...
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What is the line of descent from from emperor Louis III to Henry VII?
The short answer is yes a little research can trace the ancestry of Emperor Henry VII back to Emperor Louis III, but to accept that lineage you have to overlook the doubt about the ancestry of one ...
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What was the conflict in Milan from 1041-1044?
In short, yes it was connected to relations with Germany, and yes, Aribert was involved:
Under Emperor Henry II (1002-24) and without a reformer on the papal throne, this situation did not present ...
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