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Hi
At a coin show I found this coin http://www.geocities.com/karl1903/EP_1.JPG http://www.geocities.com/karl1903/EP_2.JPG Can anyone tell me what this is? Best regards Erik |
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"pindborg" wrote in message ... Hi At a coin show I found this coin http://www.geocities.com/karl1903/EP_1.JPG http://www.geocities.com/karl1903/EP_2.JPG Can anyone tell me what this is? Best regards Erik It's a 3 Heller copper coin from the German state of Hesse-Cassel. KM-612. Worth just a few dollars in this grade. James |
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On 24 Mar., 18:14, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
"pindborg" wrote in message ... Hi At a coin show I found this coin Hi Thank you very much for your quick reply. I had not seen the Hesse- Cassel state, but fortunately you solved it for me. Best regards Erik http://www.geocities.com/karl1903/EP_1.JPG http://www.geocities.com/karl1903/EP_2.JPG Can anyone tell me what this is? Best regards Erik It's a 3 Heller copper coin from the German state of Hesse-Cassel. *KM-612. Worth just a few dollars in this grade. James |
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I decided that I needed to know what the German meant, so I went to
Google's translation site (http://translate.google.com/translate_t? langpair=de|en), and entered this: "kurhessische scheide munze" Somehow, I have my doubts about the accuracy of the translation. |
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"bgg" wrote in message ... I decided that I needed to know what the German meant, so I went to Google's translation site (http://translate.google.com/translate_t? langpair=de|en), and entered this: "kurhessische scheide munze" Somehow, I have my doubts about the accuracy of the translation. You're sure you entered "scheide munze" and not "scheisse munze" aren't you? James |
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"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
"kurhessische scheide munze" Somehow, I have my doubts about the accuracy of the translation. You're sure you entered "scheide munze" and not "scheisse munze" aren't you? Actually the word "Scheide", by itself, has various meanings, one of which refers to a part of a woman's body where things can get in rather than out. Try entering "Kurhessische Scheidemünze" instead. Christian |
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"Christian Feldhaus" wrote in message ... "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: "kurhessische scheide munze" Somehow, I have my doubts about the accuracy of the translation. You're sure you entered "scheide munze" and not "scheisse munze" aren't you? Actually the word "Scheide", by itself, has various meanings, one of which refers to a part of a woman's body where things can get in rather than out. Try entering "Kurhessische Scheidemünze" instead. Christian Google: Kurhessische vagina coin AltaVista: Cure-hessian fractional coin translation2.paralink.com: Health resort-Hessian scabbard coin Freetranslation.com: Cure Hessian sheath coin InterTran: Kurhessische Scheidemünze Dictionary.com: Kurhessische Scheidemünze AppliedLanguage: Cure-hessian Scheidemünze Presumably this means: Hessian fractional coin. But what does the "Kur" modifier mean? W. |
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"1787" wrote in message ... "Christian Feldhaus" wrote in message ... "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: "kurhessische scheide munze" Somehow, I have my doubts about the accuracy of the translation. You're sure you entered "scheide munze" and not "scheisse munze" aren't you? Actually the word "Scheide", by itself, has various meanings, one of which refers to a part of a woman's body where things can get in rather than out. Try entering "Kurhessische Scheidemünze" instead. Christian Google: Kurhessische vagina coin AltaVista: Cure-hessian fractional coin translation2.paralink.com: Health resort-Hessian scabbard coin Freetranslation.com: Cure Hessian sheath coin InterTran: Kurhessische Scheidemünze Dictionary.com: Kurhessische Scheidemünze AppliedLanguage: Cure-hessian Scheidemünze Presumably this means: Hessian fractional coin. But what does the "Kur" modifier mean? The Latin word "vagina" does indeed mean a sheath, or a scabbard, so things are not as strange as they might seem at first blush. However, as a language teacher I am always amused at how garbled the translation is when done by a machine, which has no way to finesse the job. I always go to a print dictionary, and in my Cassell's German Dictionary, "scheide munze" is a phrase meaning "small change." The word Kur exists without or with the umlaut. With the umlaut (Kür) it has to do with "election" and I would imagine it had something to do with the fact that Hesse-Cassel was an "electorate" at the time. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Hesse if you dare. James |
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"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... "1787" wrote in message ... "Christian Feldhaus" wrote in message ... "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: "kurhessische scheide munze" Somehow, I have my doubts about the accuracy of the translation. You're sure you entered "scheide munze" and not "scheisse munze" aren't you? Actually the word "Scheide", by itself, has various meanings, one of which refers to a part of a woman's body where things can get in rather than out. Try entering "Kurhessische Scheidemünze" instead. Christian Google: Kurhessische vagina coin AltaVista: Cure-hessian fractional coin translation2.paralink.com: Health resort-Hessian scabbard coin Freetranslation.com: Cure Hessian sheath coin InterTran: Kurhessische Scheidemünze Dictionary.com: Kurhessische Scheidemünze AppliedLanguage: Cure-hessian Scheidemünze Presumably this means: Hessian fractional coin. But what does the "Kur" modifier mean? The Latin word "vagina" does indeed mean a sheath, or a scabbard, so things are not as strange as they might seem at first blush. However, as a language teacher I am always amused at how garbled the translation is when done by a machine, which has no way to finesse the job. I always go to a print dictionary, and in my Cassell's German Dictionary, "scheide munze" is a phrase meaning "small change." The word Kur exists without or with the umlaut. With the umlaut (Kür) it has to do with "election" and I would imagine it had something to do with the fact that Hesse-Cassel was an "electorate" at the time. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Hesse if you dare. James Danke. Experience with multiple languages is a real plus when collecting world coins. So, we have here a minor copper coin, 3 Heller, from the Hesse-Cassel electorate of 1864, KM-612. W. |
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"1787" wrote in message ... "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... "1787" wrote in message ... "Christian Feldhaus" wrote in message ... "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: "kurhessische scheide munze" Somehow, I have my doubts about the accuracy of the translation. You're sure you entered "scheide munze" and not "scheisse munze" aren't you? Actually the word "Scheide", by itself, has various meanings, one of which refers to a part of a woman's body where things can get in rather than out. Try entering "Kurhessische Scheidemünze" instead. Christian Google: Kurhessische vagina coin AltaVista: Cure-hessian fractional coin translation2.paralink.com: Health resort-Hessian scabbard coin Freetranslation.com: Cure Hessian sheath coin InterTran: Kurhessische Scheidemünze Dictionary.com: Kurhessische Scheidemünze AppliedLanguage: Cure-hessian Scheidemünze Presumably this means: Hessian fractional coin. But what does the "Kur" modifier mean? The Latin word "vagina" does indeed mean a sheath, or a scabbard, so things are not as strange as they might seem at first blush. However, as a language teacher I am always amused at how garbled the translation is when done by a machine, which has no way to finesse the job. I always go to a print dictionary, and in my Cassell's German Dictionary, "scheide munze" is a phrase meaning "small change." The word Kur exists without or with the umlaut. With the umlaut (Kür) it has to do with "election" and I would imagine it had something to do with the fact that Hesse-Cassel was an "electorate" at the time. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Hesse if you dare. James Danke. Experience with multiple languages is a real plus when collecting world coins. So, we have here a minor copper coin, 3 Heller, from the Hesse-Cassel electorate of 1864, KM-612. All we need is to note that it is also 1/120 (120 einen) of a thaler, and the picture is complete. James |
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