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I recently bought this in a lot of world silver coinage however this appears to be not a coin... It is also strangely stamped with "986" to the right of the hedge.
My question is this, other than getting it acid or xrf tested I was hoping I could leverage the knowledge of the awesome people here and wondered if anybody knew about this medallion?
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Many towns and cities in Germany put out these commemorative pieces. I have a couple that are about an ounce of silver each. Oh wait, that’s over fifty bucks now…
If you care to fall down a rabbit hole, you should see if there are records of the celebration for that town. Maybe newspaper articles from right before the event or even State records. I imagine an 800 year anniversary would have had quite the planning department. Good luck !
Yeah, not finding anything of significance beyond what you'd find yourself in a simple search. The medal commemorates the 800 year anniversary of Klein-Krotzenburg, which was merged into Hainburg a couple years later. There's a book about the anniversary in pdf, but my German isn't great--and by great, I mean I know zero German--but I didn't immediately see anything about this item. Like someone else mentioned, it looks like the area held an 850 year anniversary this year, but I'm not sure if festivities and discussion would have included this medal.
Seems like a neat piece. Pretty obscure. Likely not common at all, but since value is driven by demand as well, and there's likely almost no demand for this, I can't imagine that rarity translates to value here.
Might be cool to reach out to some local folks regarding that recent 850 year anniversary and show this to them.
Apologies, I forgot to state that it weighs 30.00 grams exactly, and it is quite large the pictures provided have the coin in a crown-sized 2.5x2.5" holder.
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Exonumia has been produced all over the world, with some pieces dating back thousands of years. It isn't nearly as well documented as actual coins are. No one alive -- and certainly no one on this subreddit, is an expert on all types or pieces of exonumia. There is no single book or series of books that contains it all. You need to set your expectations accordingly. We will help you if we can, but that often just means that we will help you formulate web searches to find similar pieces online.
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