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 United States
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@Lucky - Thanks for sharing. I have yet to track down a nice Junk dollar. A bit ago I bid on a "birds over junk" variant and lost... miserably. These command such high premiums, especially in higher grades.
@Shaw - Nice. I really like the "Cap & Rays" design.
@Plonker - Awesome double ducat. When did you acquire yours?
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Belgium
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@plonker Quote:
This is a dutch provinces Zeeland silver 2 ducats from 1748. It weights about 57gs. very nice coin indeed ! a so called piedfort the example of Wiki was from the J.R. Lasser collection |
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United States
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Here are a couple more: 1897 Souvenir Peso   1796 Genoa 8 Lire   Edited by cableguy815
01/15/2018 6:30 pm
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Belgium
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United States
414 Posts |
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the second is from Genoa, Italy - not Geneva, Switzerland Whoops! That's what happens when you try to do 10 things at once. Fixed! By the way, I managed to snag this one for a whopping 170Euro. How the heck did I manage that one is above and beyond me. Edited by cableguy815
01/15/2018 6:34 pm
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170euros!!This is it cableguy815, I'm calling the police!This should be illegal!  |
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Valued Member
186 Posts |
1891 5 pesetas,obv. fleur-de-lis countermark(?),common   |
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Valued Member
186 Posts |
1597,Saxony thaler,the well-known ''three brothers'' type, with plenty of forgeries and reproductions on the market.   |
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late lion daalder,1684,Campen   |
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1793,Holland ducaton,50.000 mintage,last year of this type   |
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Singapore
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Not sure if this qualifies as a gem crown but here's mine.  |
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United States
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Absolutely. I'm a huge fan and collector of Moroccan coinage. Your sample as some very interesting toning.
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Singapore
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Thanks, could it have been dipped in some toning solution by the previous owner ?
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United States
414 Posts |
I always hate answering these kind of questions because it is very difficult to do based on pictures alone but my initial hunch, based on color and the visible linear scrapes, I'd guess this coin was aggressively cleaned before and has since retoned. It is not improbably that it was also dipped in some sort of a chemical agent. I have quite a few of Moroccan crowns and they are by far the "dirtiest" of my coins. More dirt in Morocco at the time? Not much water and people didn't wash hands as often? Who knows. I have quite a few candidates I'm ready to dip in some acetone to remove the gunk and grime.
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Singapore
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No worries cableguy, there are no right or wrong answers, only informed or uninformed opinions.
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