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http://www.stampandcoin.co.uk FEBRUARY 2016 97

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SOLD FOR £523

Switzerland Canton of Bern 1 Thaler

1679 silver coin

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SOLD FOR £218

Egypt £1 1951

SOLD FOR £131

USA $100 2006 RADAR note UNC

SOLD FOR £193

Federated Malay States 1941 –

5 Piculs Dry Rubber Export Coupon

SOLD FOR £228

Italy 500,000 lire 1997 UNC note

Coins on

a budget

This month’s coin was purchased

recently from a dealer at a cost of

£14, writes Ed Archer. It is more

than one might usually pay for coins

of the Livonian Order but it is in

excellent condition.

The Livonian order was based in

Rival (modern day Tallinn, capital

of Estonia). They were a Crusading

Order, whose primary objective was

to bring Christianity by force to the

lands surrounding the Baltic as well as

fighting the Russians. By 1400 they

had taken over the more famous order

of the Teutonic knights, who were in a

state of decline.

The coin is a silver schilling.

This was the main coin used by the

Baltic states; it was issued on behalf

the Master of the Livonian Order,

Hermann Hasenkamp (1535-1549),

the first Protestant Master.

On the reverse is the shield of the

Livonian Order which is surrounded

by the inscription Mone Revalie 40;

this means that the schilling was struck

at Tallinn in 1540. On the obverse

is a plain cross with the inscription

‘Magistri Livonie’, this translates as

‘of the Master of the Livonian Order’,

confirming that it was struck on the

Master’s authority.

SOLD FOR

£617

Monaco €2

commemorative

2015 in a case

SOLD FOR £236

Spain 25 pestetas 1940 Juan de Herrera

SOLD FOR £494

France Louis XIII ‘Demi Ecu 2 eme Poinçon de

Warin’ gold coin XF

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