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 Posted 08/08/2007  8:12 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add paldin to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi All,
If anyone one could help indentify this coin my mother found on the weekend would be great.

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 Posted 08/09/2007  04:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add stratocaster to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sap will probably know the answer...
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 Posted 08/09/2007  04:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
And the answer is...

...I'm not really sure.

The style of lettering around the edges looks renaissance period (1400's or 1500's) but it's brassy, and coins were rarely made of brass in that period. My best guess is that it's another jeton. Number 18 from that site is a French jeton from the 1300's - the design matches, but the writing is in the older, mediaeval chunky style script:
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 Posted 08/09/2007  05:04 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add maudry to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like a tournois from France, but I cannot read the legend, so I cannot tell the ruler and I may be completely wrong.
Maybe you can give us information about the size and weight?
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 Posted 08/09/2007  10:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pattiewhack to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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Rennaissance seems like a likely guess... What's it made of? I've never seen old coins made out of this type of metal.
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 Posted 08/09/2007  1:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add josie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Its color gold.

other european countries use gold color metal like the one they used in 20 cent euro upto 50cent euro in the past.
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 Posted 08/09/2007  2:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add halfabustisbetter to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Check the edge. Is there a line around it almost like two coins clamped together?
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 Posted 08/09/2007  10:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add paldin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks to all those who gave their views......
I do not think it was two coins clamped together but it would be very hard to determine this as it is very worn. I have since found out it was found 70 feet under the Thames River approx 28yrs ago when they were doing some maintenance. They also found a full Roman chest armour plate when they found the coin.
This site has been very helpful and I will refer it to anyone else I know who is interested in coins and their history.... Cheer Paldin
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 Posted 08/10/2007  06:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add josie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_c...ormal_issues

Maybe made of nordic gold the composition of metal in the past is poor and making something out of it is poor in quality.

The history of the making process of it like they used in the past was lost but perfected today for the use in making 10 cents euro to 50 cents euro.

70 feet below ground level that is deep, it depends on what part of thames did you found it,for me if you found it in a catch basin where all the mud will go after the flooding and high tide, still it will be old, but on gruond expert measure the depth of the ground to know the age of their find if their is no other record to base their finds or unrecorded inches maybe year or years equivalent.

In the episode of the BIG DIG they used to measure the age, they used a basketball court or some kind of court to measure the age in ground depth.

There are lot of info in your coin its brassy.
found 70 feet below in river Thames
along side with roman plated armour.
and their is a inscription in the coin.
goodluck.
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 Posted 08/10/2007  06:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add josie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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 Posted 08/10/2007  08:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add josie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
http://www.vikingart.com/Vikings.htm

http://www.viking.no/e/heritage/ee-money.htm

http://www.viking.no/e/heritage/emoney.htm

http://www.viking.no/e/heritage/en-money.htm

http://www.viking.no/e/england/york...jordvik.html

Maybe it is in the border of mediaeval and renaissance or a nordic gold piece well its brassy and poor quality Ive read an article didnt know what site it is and what year did they use nordic gold on coins,the coin was found in Thames.
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 Posted 08/10/2007  10:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nordic gold is basically brass with a bit of aluminium thrown in the mix. It's purely a 20th century alloy - aluminium wasn't cheap and readily available until the late 1800's.

The Vikings didn't make too many coins of their own, preferring to pilfer and copy the ones their victims made. The few coins they did make are small, crude and rather plain, usually silver, rarely gold, never brass or bronze. Vikings in England made coins that look like this.
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 Posted 08/10/2007  11:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add josie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you sap nordic gold is in 1800s.

Any possibility that this coin is swedish, since they are the one who made the nordic gold and maybe this is a early piece if it is real,maybe you can narrow down the year or centuries when it was made for swedish are minting coins in 995 ad, dont know if it is near but some letter are similar.

This is same picture you post.
http://www.viking.no/images/erikmynt.jpg

Did the nord produce their own coin and copy the design of the english like this one.

http://www.dokpro.uio.no/umk/bilder...2a_400_g.gif

their is some color broze in this coin and that nords did make changes in their coin.

most of the letter I see in paldin coin is lot of N and O it might be GODPINEM-ONO if it is real or late variation of the last viking king,just asking Sap Thank you.

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 Posted 08/11/2007  10:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bonedigger to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's a French jeton from the 16th century struck at Bayonne (L) with part of it being just near the edge on the side of the cross.
http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/proj...PiN/juh.html
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 Posted 08/11/2007  12:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add josie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you to all.

Thougth they have nordic gold in early times,so I follow up.well I posted that they lost the method in making one,how they can lost it if it is a century away.could be right or could be wrong at least I posted that, I read an article that mentioning this.
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 Posted 08/12/2007  12:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add josie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
last page might be something

http://www.cda.org.uk/news/q&aeuro.pdf



They did made bronze coin during ancient and medievial.
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