Identification Please And Whether It Is A Replica Or Not?

Knowing nothing about it at all, I'd have to say it just doesn't look old.



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Does it look like a new cast or maybe very well preserved?

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Thanks for the replies. Thinking of sending it to the NGC.

What you have is a nice looking replica.

I can point to three things that distinguish this coin from a genuine one:
1. It is perfectly circular. Medieval hammered coins are not. They are manually cut out from sheets of metal and then hammered with great force, inevitably leading to an uneven shape.
2. The lettering is completely even and regular, each letter being flat and all letters raised the same amount above the surface of the coin. In a die for a medieval coin, the letters are manually engraved or punched, resulting in slightly varying depth across the recess for a letter and differences in depths between letters. Any unevenness in how the hammer hits the flan will add to these irregularities.
3. The fine-grained surface points to the coin being plated rather than of solid gold.

I see, I had thought myself about the flawlessness of the coin but I guess I was just hoping it would be worth something.

Thanks for the insight