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Valued Member
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Looks to me like Spanish ? Please help .   |
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Topic StarterCanada
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How did you know this ? Thankyou .
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Pillar of the Community
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How did you know this ? I think because he is a smart guy who has absorbed a lot from many years of collecting world coins. (And also from the LM for Lima  )
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@wes, one really good way of quickly identifying coins, especially more modern ones is with the ap Coinoscope. At the very least it can get you started in the right direction. Full disclosure: I have nothing to do with this ap.
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There is also a search-by-image feature on Numistia here: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?ct=coinClick the camera icon, upload images of both sides, and it should narrow it down to a few results. Accumulating knowledge is important, but technology can be very useful. |
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Topic StarterCanada
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Thanks guys I didn't know about either option .
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I actually just searched on Numista with filters: Face value: 2 Reales, Gregorian date: 1762.
(Sorry, I was in a hurry. I should have taken the time to teach.)
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Topic StarterCanada
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Where do I go for a resource on value ?
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Topic StarterCanada
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I did check Ebays sold items but wasn't sure if the date makes a difference or not . Thanks for the help all.
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I did check Ebays sold items but wasn't sure if the date makes a difference or not . That's where the catalogues can help: identifying if any particular dates are highly sought after. As a general rule, for coins from the 1700s, there aren't. But it's always good to check. Even an old physical Krause catalogue can be useful here. The values themselves are not usable, but they can be used as a rarity indicator.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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So, on one side we see a coat of arms with lions and castles, which means Spain, and in the middle fleurs-de-lis, meaning a Bourbon King of Spain. Then the inscription tells us CAR III DG HISP ET IND R, "Charles III by the Grace of God King of Spain and the Indies". And to the sides of the shield 2R meaning "two reales", that being a standard denomination for Spanish silver coins.
Then on the other side we have the two hemispheres with pillars design, typical of New World mints of the Spanish Empire, and the mottoes UTRAQUE UNUM (that the two be one) around, and PLUS ULTRA (there is more beyond) on the Pillars of Hercules. We see the date, 1762. And there is LM, meaning the Lima mint in Peru (some coins have a fancy monogram which jams all the letters of LIMAE together), and JM which is the initials of the official responsible for the coinage (who could be put to death if the coins issuing from the mint were not of the right weight and composition, which did happen from time to time).
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