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On 9/26/2022 at 12:04 AM, Qcumbor said:

I've already posted that previously, but thought it might be appropriate to have it here too :

The siege of Mainz (source Wikipedia)

"In the siege of Mainz (German: Belagerung von Mainz), from 14 April to 23 July 1793, a coalition of Prussia, Austria, and other German states led by the Holy Roman Empire besieged and captured Mainz from revolutionary French forces. The allies, especially the Prussians, first tried negotiations, but this failed, and the bombardment of the city began on the night of 17 June.

Within the town the siege and bombardment led to stress between citizens, municipality and the French war council, governing since 2 April. The city administration was displaced on 13 July; this increased the stubbornness of the remaining population. Since a relief army was missing, the war council was forced to take up negotiations with the allied forces on 17 July; the remaining soldiers capitulated on 23 July.

Nearly 19,000 French troops surrendered at the end of the siege, but were allowed to return to France if they promised not to fight against the allies for one year. Consequently, they were used to fight French royalists in the Vendée region of France. They left the town singing La Marseillaise (also known as the Chant de guerre de l'Armée du Rhin).

The Republic of Mainz, the first democratic state on the later German territory, was subsequently dissolved. Mainz received a Prussian commander to administer the city. The bombardment had left devastating traces in the townscape: some civil buildings and aristocratic palaces like the comedy house, the electoral pleasure palace Favorite, the House of the Cathedral Provost, Liebfrauen- and the church of Society of Jesus had been destroyed, as well as St. Crucis, the Benedictine abbey St. Jacob on the citadel and the remains of St. Alban's Abbey. The cathedral had been heavily damaged.

The biggest impact of the occupation and siege was that the city's part in the old imperial electoral structure finally came to their end. Thus the events of the year 1793 also marked the end of Aurea Moguntia, the Latin nickname for the city: "Golden Mainz". The city lost its status as the electoral residence.

The shelling of Mainz was widely discussed in Europe. Many people gathered round the town in order to view the siege. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe assisted Duke Carl August of Saxe-Weimar during the siege and wrote a famous book about it."

During the siege, the population there had to mint in emergency for everyday use. Three denominations are known to exist, 1 sol, 2 sols and 5 sols. They're uncommon rather than rare

 

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Siège de Mayence - 2 sols 1793 - Atelier de Mayence (Mainz) 

REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE / 1793 L'AN 2ᴱ Faisceau de licteur surmonté d'un bonnet phrygien, dans une couronne de chêne (variété à trois branches)
MONOYE DE SIEGE DE MAYENCE - au centre 2 SOLS en deux lignes entre trois roses
9,19 gr - 25 mm
Ref : Gadoury # 66

 

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Siège de Mayence - 2 sols 1793 - Atelier de Mayence (Mainz) 

REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE / 1793 L'AN 2ᴱ Faisceau de licteur surmonté d'un bonnet phrygien, dans une couronne de chêne (variété à rameaux simples)
MONOYE DE SIEGE DE MAYENCE - au centre 2 SOLS en deux lignes entre trois roses
7,07 gr - 23 mm
Ref : Gadoury # 66a

 

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Siège de Mayence - 5 sols 1793 - Atelier de Mayence (Mainz) 

REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE / 1793 L'AN 2ᴱ Faisceau de licteur surmonté d'un bonnet phrygien, dans une couronne de chêne
MONOYE DE SIEGE DE MAYENCE - au centre 5 SOLS en deux lignes entre trois roses
14,71 gr - 31 mm
Ref : Gadoury # 67

Q
 

I just picked up a related piece a few weeks ago. I appreciate the extra information.

 

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China

Province: Yunnan
Year: 1917
Av:
Top: 軍務院撫軍長唐
Center: General Tang Jiyao (唐繼堯)
Rv:
Top:擁護共和紀念
Center: Flags
bottom: 庫平三錢六分 (3 Qian 6 Fen)
Value: 50 cents
Material: silver, 13.19g, 33.3mm
Literature: KM Y# 479.1

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Province: Yunnan
Year: 1949
Av:
Top: 雲南省造, yún nán shĕng zào, (Yunnan province), flowers.
center: 貳毫銀幣 (two tenths silver coin), flower
below: 中華民國三十八年 (Republic of China 38 years)
Rv: Building
Value: 2 Jiao, 20 Fen
Material: silver, 5.43g, 24.1mm
Literature: KM Y# 493

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My oldest American coins are pre-federal. I have a 1773 Virginia Half Penny and a 1788 Vermont Copper. Really cool early US history. Back when Vermont was a republic separate from the states. A nice field to collect. Hoping to eventually get a NJ one as well because that's the state I'm from. 

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1 hour ago, Amarmur said:

My oldest American coins are pre-federal. I have a 1773 Virginia Half Penny and a 1788 Vermont Copper. Really cool early US history. Back when Vermont was a republic separate from the states. A nice field to collect. Hoping to eventually get a NJ one as well because that's the state I'm from. 

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That is really neat!

I don't live there anymore, but I grew up in NJ. Burlington County.

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Here is one I got a little while ago. By 1942, the Germans were deep inside the Soviet Union, but their advance had stalled at the city of Leningrad. The months that followed witnessed a horrific siege which, according to Wikipedia, "caused the greatest destruction and the largest loss of life ever known in a modern city." More than 1,000,000 perished of hunger, disease, and the fighting.

 

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China - Warlord issue

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Province: Sichuan
Cast War Lord imitation
Year: Year 3 (1914)
Obv:
Top:中華民國三年 ( Republic of China, the third year).
Center: 漢 (hàn in seal script).
Rev:
Top: 軍政府造 (Made by the military government).
Center: 四川銅幣 (Si Chuan copper money)
Bottom: 當制錢壹百文 (equivalent to 100 Wen)
Value: 100 Wen
Material: copper, 30g, 38.9mm
Ref.: KM Y# 450 var., cast

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1907 S Philippines One Peso
United States of America Territory
 

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A Peso minted in San Francisco for the United States Territory, The Philippines when it was part of the US between 1898 and 1946.

Well above average for a circulated peso, as millions were hidden in crates in the ocean off the Philippine Island to avoid letting the invading Japanese get them during WWII.
This may have escaped corrosion and harsh cleaning that many do exhibit that were recovered from the shallow ocean floor after the War.

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Obverse

Female head with laurel wreath facing left, dividing the country name on both sides. Names of the designer and engraver below.

Reverse

Goddess Minerva facing left reaching an olive tree with her raised right hand while in the left holds a long spear. Value at left of olive trunk; mintmark at right of the Goddess. Date below, in exergue.

 

 

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