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kommodore_ss Valued Member Romania 104 Posts	Posted 09/06/2014 08:00 am hello , here's a hard one. charles coin? 5.75 grams 24 mm Edited by kommodore_ss 09/06/2014 6:38 pm Report this Post to the Staff

wonghinghi Pillar of the Community Hong Kong 1270 Posts	Posted 09/06/2014 08:07 am I don't think so! Report this Post to the Staff
kommodore_ss Valued Member Romania 104 Posts	Posted 09/06/2014 08:08 am What? There's the republic of china flag I think Report this Post to the Staff
wonghinghi Pillar of the Community Hong Kong 1270 Posts	Posted 09/06/2014 09:41 am The left image looks like there is a cross dissecting the coins in four parts. It is a western style coin in my opinion. Is it meaningful to examine too much on this totally torn coin? Report this Post to the Staff
augsburger Pillar of the Community Germany 1063 Posts	Posted 09/06/2014 10:14 am For it to be the Chinese flag, it wouldn't be that old, and this coin looks like it was made in a manner that would be older. Report this Post to the Staff
kommodore_ss Valued Member Romania 104 Posts	Posted 09/06/2014 1:55 pm Hmm so what could it be? Report this Post to the Staff
kommodore_ss Valued Member Romania 104 Posts	Posted 09/06/2014 3:05 pm I was said it is a charles 1st coin? the flags seems to be about the same Edited by kommodore_ss 09/06/2014 6:39 pm Report this Post to the Staff
philadelphian Pillar of the Community United States 3253 Posts	Posted 09/06/2014 9:18 pm It's a coat of arms in the first pic. At the bottom we can see the harp of Ireland in the lower left quarter, first added to the royal arms of England in 1603. The upper left quarter of the arms is itself quartered, which narrows it to being the arms of the Stuart kings, or, later, Queen Anne. Edited by philadelphian 09/06/2014 9:29 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Tom Goodheart Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 856 Posts	Posted 09/07/2014 05:14 am There's really not much to go on Kommodore! However, you might be right. The first image appears to show the quartered shield and harp that you find on coins of Charles I. From the weight my guess is that it could be a heavily clipped halfcrown. The outer legends have been removed completely (to save the silver) leaving it not much bigger than a shilling. The obverse (right hand image) shows the remains of an equestrian portrait of the king. A bit like this: However what detail I can see seems very crude and the square topped shield doesn't look quite right. My guess is perhaps you have a contemporary (ie 17th century)counterfeit that was deliberately trimmed and defaced to enable it to pass as a coin. In which case the silver may well be debased too. I've seen such things before. Interesting either way! Edited by Tom Goodheart 09/07/2014 05:20 am Report this Post to the Staff
kommodore_ss Valued Member Romania 104 Posts	Posted 09/07/2014 12:06 pm Thank you guys. Does it have any value? Report this Post to the Staff
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