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redheat4
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I thought you may like to see the coin that my wife found on a recent dig.

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It is a gold coin of King John (Joao) ii of Portugal 1481 - 1495

As you can immagine we got quite excited when it came up.

There is still some dirt on the coin as I took these photos before cleaning the coin.



Ian



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ps. if anyone has any info on this coin it would be much appreciated.

Ian
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Very nice! How deep do you find a 500 year old coin?
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redheat, nice find!!

you may want to post this one on world coins section to get some help with info, actually you have figured out the hard part yourself :)
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Great find, also would like to know how deep? any particular aspects of the site that drew you to search there?
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Great find, I wouldn't clean it any more. Was the coin found in Portugal?
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Redheat,
Try here

http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/

and ask Chris. He is the owner of this site and has mega experience with coins of this nature.
I will be going over here in OCT. Looking forward to a blast of a time.
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