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Very nice!

another nice coin Hondo!!

Nice pickup. Here's to you getting the rest.

By the way, in case it isn't known, the two crossed swords are the symbol of meissen porcelain specifically.

Thank you, Dearborn Errers nautilator and jbuck! And thank you for that info, nautilator - I recall read that earlier in the thread but had forgotten the details.

Very nice!

Nice addition, Hondo Boguss.

Got this today. It's a tin 11-cent piece issued in Malaysia in the mid-1700s. The rooster had a defined value of 5 cents while each ring had a value of 1 cent.

The reason for this unusual design was it was meant to be cut up to make change. And cut they were. Original, uncut pieces are extremely rare and difficult to find. If you're wondering, this is about 4 inches long and weighs a little more than an ounce.




This is a token that was issued by the British Sub Aqua Club in Jamaica. Though it does not display a denomination, it had a value of 5 shillings. It was issued because collecting money for bottles of air was difficult. Because of the cost of ordering tokens was high, the club made their own -- out of brass washers.




I do not have this in hand yet but I will soon. This is a gold Spanish 4 escudos from the 1700s -- except it's actually a contemporary counterfeit. It was made with a trash metal called platinum. At the time, platinum had no known uses and was the only metal readily available that could match the density of gold. Contemporary platinum counterfeits are scarce but come up for sale reasonably often. This is one of the few instances where I think a counterfeit fits well with material collecting.