Can anybody identify this coin?

[Ram-migration]

I can't find any references to this one..........

[dooly]

 

Hi there the only bit of the legend i can get is Dei Gratia Rex Boemie ( By the Grace of God King Boemie. the rest i cannot find

 

If you look at the rev there is a Moden letter E (ERAGENSES) not a lombardic type as there is for the rest of the letter E's on the coin so i would suspect that it is not a real coin ..Sorry..

 

I hope someone proves me wrong

[jgrinz]

Some kind of token I would assume

[Ram-migration]

OK thanks, I was thinking it was bogus, but wanted to see if anyone else might know what it was.

[Ram-migration]

Looking it over again that first letter is not an E, it's a P pragenses. I used the microscope on it and it is definitely a P. Does that change anything?? Its still a token or a repro right?

[MTHead-migration]

Check Prague, Czechoslovakia and/or the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

 

That is a Czech lion.

 

It might be a coin of the time of Charles IV (KAROLUS PRIMUS)....and then again it might not.

 

Any idea of the metal?

 

Poorly translated from a French numis site: ENLARGED PRAGENSES on Gogole and your medal take again a true currency:

Large of Prague de Charles 1st of Bohemian (1346 - 1378)

Avers: ENLARGED PRAGENSES - Lion upright

Reverse: interior KAROLUS PRIMUS - Outside: DEI GRATIA REX BOEMIE - Crown

Charles 1st is Charles IV of Luxembourg which became king de Bohème in 1346 -

 

Prague Groschen

 

[Ram-migration]

It's an inch and a quarter in diameter, one eighth thick, and weighs 36.3 grams.

It doesn't appear to be gold, looks like brass, but may be some combination that has the brassy look? I found some other references that showed the same coin but with a name other than KAROLUS PRIMAS in the center, other than the name everything else was identical, but it was just pictures so I don't know if it is real or not.