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| Help To Identify Copper Coin Rex W
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robert_
Valued Member
Italy
79 Posts |
 Posted 02/24/2021 09:22 am
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Ciao,
can you help me in giving a name to this small copper coin?
About 15mm, 0,72g.
First two numerals of the date are not readable, the last two are 65 (?). But they seem strange numbers. Maybe instead they are letters in another language? Eastern language?
On the other side I don't read anything, maybe also here an Eastern alphabet?
Thanks, ciao
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| | Forum: Ancient, Greek, Roman, and Medieval Coins |
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| Cannon Countermark On A Spiel Token
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robert_
Valued Member
Italy
79 Posts |
Posted 02/24/2021 09:08 am
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Ciao, have you ever seen this countermark around? A cannon with letters CR (GR? or CF?).
The spiel marke token with the head of Regina Victoria measures 17,5mm and the hallmark is very small, about 5mm. Other two bigger letters F and C (G?) are punched on the sides.
A countermark of some French military circle, maybe?
Thanks
Roberto
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| | Forum: Tokens, Medals, Challenge Coins, and other Exonumia |
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| Esoteric Medal In Silver
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robert_
Valued Member
Italy
79 Posts |
Posted 09/17/2019 07:05 am
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Ciao, here a very strange finding, a silver medal carved by hand on the two sides.
35mm, 12,72g). Have you ever seen one of these?
It looks to be a kind of esoteric medal, as the symbols are the same or very similar to various esoteric alphabets (the Celestian, the Malachim etc). Is anyone able to decipher it?
The only easy understandable things are the David star, the date 5.9.49 and the two Latin legends, which are taken from the Bible.
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| | Forum: Tokens, Medals, Challenge Coins, and other Exonumia |
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| An Old, Difficult Copper Coin...
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robert_
Valued Member
Italy
79 Posts |
Posted 05/16/2019 09:20 am
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Ciao,maybe you can help me with this strange coin, poorly struck. On one side is visible some like a shield with a crown (?) and maybe a date. 1550... on the sides of the crown. On the other side no idea.
Copper, 10,18g. 29mm circa.
Thanks, Roberto
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| | Forum: World Coins and Commemoratives |
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| 10 Francs Out Of Collar?
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robert_
Valued Member
Italy
79 Posts |
Posted 05/16/2019 05:19 am
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"The heavy circulation evident makes me think that an awful lot of people saw the coin, handled the coin and spent the coin without realising how special or different it was. Which in turn implies that when the circulation happened, the coin did not show this damage"
By the way, just to answer to Sap, it happened to me to find some very rare out of collar errors or partial collars coins that have circulated (especially from the period of the Kingdom, here in Italy). They are called "Bordo Largo" here (large edge). The people not always care or see the errors, also numismatists, believe me.
In the case of this 10 francs the edge look different, normally is flat, here is porous, that's way I liked to get your ideas on it. |
| | Forum: World Variety and Error Coins |
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| 10 Francs Out Of Collar?
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robert_
Valued Member
Italy
79 Posts |
Posted 05/16/2019 05:11 am
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| Ok, but f you hammer a coin on the edge or put under a machine you don't get that kind of porous and irregular surface. It seems a raw surface, like result in after a melting (or in a blank not properly finished?)... |
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| 10 Francs Out Of Collar?
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robert_
Valued Member
Italy
79 Posts |
Posted 05/15/2019 11:05 am
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Ciao, I wait for your opinion about this 10 Francs 1951 which seems to be an Out of Collar error to me. The diameter is 20,3mm.
The irregular surfaces on the edge make me think that is a mint error and not a PMD.
Roberto
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| | Forum: World Variety and Error Coins |
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| Devotional Medal From The Slavic Area
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robert_
Valued Member
Italy
79 Posts |
Posted 04/26/2019 06:38 am
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Ciao, here you can see a wonderful old (very old) devotional medal with the scenes of the annunciation and birth of Christ
It is a large medal made in tin or lead (26,94 g 44x52mm) with cyrillic characters in the legends.
I have tried looking for the cyrillic letters but there are some that doesn't exist on the different cyrillic alphabets, then I cannot understand which country the medal is coming from, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria etc..
Anyone can help?
Thanks!
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| | Forum: Tokens, Medals, Challenge Coins, and other Exonumia |
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| 20 Rappen Multi Struck Or Multiple Doubled Dies. But Counterfeit!
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robert_
Valued Member
Italy
79 Posts |
Posted 02/15/2019 03:33 am
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I think it is a contemporary counterfeit, the material looks very similar to other contemporary counterfeits I own, from Switzerland and Italy. Modern fakes normally are made with different metals, not so grey. By the way, I've found it in a box of coins full of Swiss coins and world coins, it was the only "strange" one, the other ones where all normal coins.
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