Wencezlaus II ? - alluminium replicas

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Hello, I am now trying to identify and categorize everything I have in my collection, whether it is valuable or interesting pieces or nonsense and crap. I also found these two aluminum replicas of historical Czech coins.

 

I am not interested in the Middle Ages and early modern period as a collector, but just out of curiosity.. 

 

1. Are these coin replicas of these coins? N#81396  N#81396

 

2. If yes, should I save them as: N#179087 N#186760 They seem different in details from that replicas. Or should I try to add them as a new item to the catalogue?

 

Hi jm1984.

 

Two of these replicas are already in the catalogue:

 

These are souvenir tokens from the Kutná Hora castle (where the Kutná Hora mint used to be). I visited the place in August 1987, and for a few koruna, you would buy yourself an aluminium planchet, which you could place inside a press, and then with a huge hammer strike your own coin.

 

There are minor differences between the two linked replicas - the service was offered for many years at the museum, and probably still is. The dies carry a date. Mine is dated 1966, so that die must have been in use for a long time.

Thanks.

 

Personally, I vaguely remember that I might have them one of them from some exhibition in "Prague Exhibition Center" (Výstaviště Praha) related to tourism or history (certainly not numismatics) around 1999-2005, where even visitors could mint coins themselves by that huge hammer that you wrote about.

 

I don't see some things on my coin, for example "1994 b" or 1966. That's why I asked whether they should be considered identical.

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