Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Germany, Hamburg, half Portugalöser (1679)

Germany, Hamburg, half Portugalöser (1679)

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Original – Free imperial city of Hamburg (Holy Roman Empire), half-portugalöser (1679). Equivalent to five ducats. View of the Port of Hamburg (obv) and an allegory of peace (rev). See Commons file for legend translation.

Reason

High quality image, high EV, very good condition, scarce

Articles in which this image appears

Hamburg, Thaler

FP category for this image

Currency/European currency

Creator

Free imperial city of Hamburg (Holy Roman Empire) (coin)
From the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History.

• Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 07:02, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support, another fine contribution to Wikipedia from Godot13. Note the file size of 11.22 Megabytes -- incredibly high resolution image. — Cirt (talk) 11:36, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – For 17th C. skyline (before the firestorms of WWII), interesting inscriptions, historical EV. Sca (talk) 14:40, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Jobas (talk) 15:52, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – nice Eye of Providence. Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 04:57, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 14:07, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 22:02, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Looks great . Hafspajen (talk) 13:13, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 18:55, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Germany-Hamburg-1679-Half Bankportugalöser-5 ducats.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:20, 24 October 2015 (UTC)