I have a german coin i believe is a commerative, front has a picture of a villiage or city with HANAU 1632,the back has 3 coat of arms and the words WAPPEN DER GRAFSCHAFT HANAU-MUNZEBERB U.D. STADTE ALT-U.NEU-HANAU, I believe my mother gave me this coin in the 70s or 80s, i have tried many searches on the web with no luck, the coin is toned so it may be silver or sterling? any help would be great so i can set a value to it
Hanau had been around about 200 years before the 1632 date on this, so I imagine that's not it. Many modern German tokens I see that commemorate smaller towns are in the same mold as the "city view" Thalers -- in that they give a historic or contemporary view of what the city looked like or looks like.
My best guess is that this is perhaps based off a city view map published in or about 1632 (which would have been shortly after it was captured by the Swedes, iirc), and the reverse should bear the arms of Philipp Moritz, Graf von Hanau-Münzenberg, who had a somewhat ignoble career as a Swedish stooge.
My guess from the font used, the detail involved, and the somewhat modern look of the detail (the clouds, the river, the banner) is that this is from the early-to-mid 1970's.
