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JBL Valued Member United Kingdom 289 Posts	Posted 09/27/2012 08:46 am I have tried to identify it but to no avail. Very difficult inscription font to read but might be Greek ? Dia' 25mm, weight 6g. Could be silver. Any ideas from the pictures ? Thanks Brian. Having great difficulty in loading the second picture, will keep trying. Report this Post to the Staff

bart Pillar of the Community Belgium 651 Posts	Posted 09/27/2012 09:22 am No, it's not Greek. It is Spanish. It reads FERNANDUS ET ELISABE D G, so it is in the name of the Reyes Catolicos, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castilia. Report this Post to the Staff
JBL Valued Member United Kingdom 289 Posts	Posted 09/27/2012 09:42 am Thanks Bart, will do further work on that info. Still can't get second pic to load Cheers Brian Report this Post to the Staff
JBL Valued Member United Kingdom 289 Posts	Posted 09/27/2012 1:22 pm At last, managed to get the other side of the coin downloaded. Is there any date to this ? Cheers Brian Report this Post to the Staff
aiglet7 Pillar of the Community Canada 695 Posts	Posted 09/27/2012 3:07 pm See this link from yesterday:- https://goccf.com/t/130379 Report this Post to the Staff
JBL Valued Member United Kingdom 289 Posts	Posted 09/27/2012 3:58 pm Oh well, never mind, you can't win 'em all Thanks for the link. Cheers Brian Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 09/27/2012 6:31 pm This one is "better quality" than the brass one commonly seen here on the forum, in that the Latin letters actually make sense on this piece, but I still think it's a replica, along the lines of this one Swamperbob commented on in this old thread. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
JBL Valued Member United Kingdom 289 Posts	Posted 09/27/2012 6:50 pm Thanks for the links, had a good read, fascinating stuff ! Lettering on the coin is a little sharper than in the pictures as the image optimizer alters them a little. I can live with it being a copy Cheers Brian. Report this Post to the Staff
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