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haxer New Member Slovenia 4 Posts	Posted 02/14/2013 11:39 am Can anyone help me to identify this coin ? Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 02/14/2013 11:55 am Odd looking piece. It looks like old dies struck on a modern piece of copper. Report this Post to the Staff
haxer New Member Slovenia 4 Posts	Posted 02/14/2013 1:45 pm I can assure you it's an old coin, becuase I found it buried about 50cm deep when we renovated our backyard (about 5 years ago). Anyone knows what are the letters on the coin ? Edited by haxer 02/14/2013 1:45 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 02/14/2013 1:48 pm I cant read it - I guess check local medieval types? Whatever it is, its got some wicked doubling. Report this Post to the Staff
chrsmat71 Pillar of the Community United States 4973 Posts	Posted 02/14/2013 2:36 pm i would guess a late medieval hungaian coin, something like this one.. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16867 Posts	Posted 02/14/2013 5:35 pm Whether it is "old" or not is, sadly, irrelevant, because this is not a genuine coin. The design is that of a mediaeval gold coin of Hungary, a goldgulden of king Matthias Corvinus, circa 1483. You can see an example with this design on this CoinArchives page. (Note that free-to-access CoinArchives pages only last six months and this one dates from October 2012; it will become obsolete soon). They did not make copper coins at all and did not use this design on anything except gold coins. I suspect what you may have here is a piece of copper which a (modern) counterfeiter used to test his fake coin dies, before he started making counterfeit coins out of actual gold. The counterfeiter then buried his "test pieces" to try to hide the evidence of his crimes. 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
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