Chippi hat geschrieben:
Hello Austorkiwi,
thanks for your answer. The preservation of this part isn´t excellent, but its look to me like 1-3-1.
Greetings chippi
I had a closer look and your right its 1-3-1. It is very hard to assess whether is is Paris. There is another possibility. Looking at how the lettering runs right up to the rim of the coin. It may be a 1930-1935 Vienna mint strike, or an early Rome mint strike. The problem is the only conclusive way ( that I know of) to confirm it is Rome is to weigh it( obviously a problem with your example). Hafner identifies only 1 Rome type however Regourdy 1992 ( Le Thaler De Marie-Therese 1780 grand voyageur di temps et de L'espace) identifies three:
1 is exactly the same as Hafner 58 except as it is made out of 835/1000 silver it weighs between 28.07-28.13 grams( as all the Rome mint coins should). The second type has more space between the tops of the letters and the Rim, and the third has the identifying die crack on the Obverse.
I have photo copies of 1930s Royal mint,UK treasury and foreign Office files. From the Foreign Office files (with the Italian objections to UK production of the coin) there is correspondence from the Italians stating their MTT are the only genuine coins as they are struck from Vienna mint dies. So it seems possible that Regourdy is correct. If he is then there is a Fourth Rome mint variety. The Royal Mint noted that some Rome mint coins suffered die cracking on the reverse as well sides. The Royal mint believed (1937) the Italians continued with the original Vienna mint dies and did not develop their own.
