Description: Archaios Numismatics __________________________________________ Description: France Jeton or Rechen pfennig from Nuremberg Brass Jeton minted by uncertain guild master Obverse: Crowns and Lis around rosette; Legend around Reverse: Globus Cruciger within tressure of three main arches and quatrefoils around; Legend around Mint: Nuremberg, France Size: 23 mm Weight: 1.40 g Ref: Mitchener, Jetons Condition: aVF, holed. Use the Picture as your judge as grading is subjective. Notes: The earliest reckoning counters are generally thought to have been copied from the Edwardian pennies of England, but during the course of the middle ages the centres of production were in France and the Low Countries. The Nuremburg jeton masters began by copying the counters of their European neighbours, but by the mid 16th century they had gained a monopoly in their manufacture which continued for over three centuries. The first Nuremburg jetons had fictitious or nonsense inscriptions, but during the latter half of the 16th century it became usual to place trite little mottos or wise sayings on them, usually of a religious nature. The language of the period is known academically as Early New High German (ENHG) and, as spelling was not standardised at that time, the inscriptions have many variant spellings. The language differs slightly from modern German, and even proper names are varied - the name Krauwinckel, for instance, is spelt in over a dozen ways in the Nuremburg archives. The jeton masters of the 16th century began by placing personal symbols or abbreviated forms of their names (i.e. IO SU for Iorg Schultes) on their jetons, but the Town Council of Nuremburg later made the full name of the masters obligatory. There is sometimes confusion where there were members of a family with the same name, and a different spelling of the Christian name might be used to distinguish them. (i.e. Hans and Hanns or Wolf and Wolff). The Schultes (or Schultheiss) family were the first to sign their counters. The Krauwinckel Family were one of the families of Jeton makers. Damianus and Hans Krauwinckel were brothers who originally started in the Jeton business. Egidius and Hanns II were the sons of Damianus, and for a time they produced jetons together. The jetons of Hanns Krauwinckel II are the most common found. Hanns' sister, Barbara, married Georg Lauffer and, at the death of Hanns, the family concern was taken over by the Lauffer family - Another famous family of Jeton producers who subsequently produced six generations of Lauffer jeton masters. Some Excerpts Taken from the helpful article from Bexley Coin Club,UK
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