Can anyone identify this coin?

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 Can anyone identify this coin? Looks like some kind of Austrian Thaler dated 1624 with Ferdinand II. It may be replica, it seems well made but is heavy, I do not have a scale so dont know the actual weight . The edge is reeded. Cant tell may be partial silver content it does not react with magnet. I have found images of many similar looking coins, but none with this same sequence of legends.

If anyone can enlighten me it would be a vastly appreciated. 

Thank you

JL 

jaani*£ane

heres the other side:

jaani*£ane

N#96931

B stands for Brunn aka Brno.

CW after date - Christoph Wonsiedler, mint official 1623-27

 

There are at least four Brno thaler variants in Krauze. Krauze classifies them as Austria. Numista puts it under Bohemia.

 

Weight and size are important even if you do that on kitchen scale. There is no nominal value on thalers and weight can make a difference between half thaler and double thaler.

Thank you very much for that information. I will get it weighed and measure it to see the dimensions as soon as possible. Do these coins have reeded edges? That feature had me wondering about it being a replica I have no real knowledge of this type of coin, but again, thank you for the information much appreciated! 

JL

jaani*£ane

There is no information about edge on Krauze for these coins. With the things that were going at the time I doubt that people went through extra efforts to protect these thalers with reeding. I do not collect thalers from that period and I do not know when mints developed technology to start using reeding.

 

If you are investigating edge, you could also post photo at an angle that shows edge.

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