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 Posted 03/05/2012  12:42 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add unfamiliar to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Seems this is a more modern coin and not an ancient like I'd originally assumed.

Any ideas?

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It is Spanish. The reverse side has the Latin legend HISPANIRUM REX with Spanish arms. The obverse has the Spanish king's shield. It is probably around the 1600s/1700s or so.
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To further qualify: it's from European Spain, not from the Spanish colonies in the Americas. For the denomination, compare the size with an American silver coin; dollar-sized is 8 reales, quarter-sized is 2 reales, etc. For the date, it should be early 1700s. rotate the bottom pic 90 degrees clockwise. I can read "PHILIPPUS" around the shield, so that makes it a coin from the reign of Philip V (1700-1746). The date should be at the top. As an example, this NGC database page lists 2 reales from the Segovia mint during this reign; I can't read the mintmark on yours (it's to the left of the shield).

It's also supposed to be .833 fine silver. Unless it's a shipwreck coin or metal detecting find, I'd be worried about the coppery colour.
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isn't the 1 reales made of copper though Mr Sap? Or the denomination under the 1 reales.
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No; the 1 real may have had a lower silver content, but it was still silver. Spanish copper coins were denominated in maravedis, not reales. And they had a radically different design, so people couldn't simply give a copper coin a silver wash and attempt to pass it as silver.
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