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Any Help On An ID Not Sure What This Is ?

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 Posted 02/22/2015  12:09 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Jimmyjayz to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
can anyone help me to id this not sure about it

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thanks in advance
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A Maria Theresa thaler. Probably about the most prevalent silver crown every made - and still being made. Nice clean uncirculated examples of the modern re strikes go for anything up to £20
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thanks, these don't look silver, so probably not and pretty common so just a collectors bit rather than valued asset

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I think you'll find that it is actually silver; it should be .833 fine, which is less fine than sterling. It certainly doesn't have the look of a modern Chinese replica. I'd assume the green spots on the high points came from being stored in a plastic coin album for too long; that should come off with acetone or methylated spirits.

As Bacchus2 implied, they have been manufactured in several different countries, and most of them were made long after the "1780" date which appears on them. They were mass-produced for trade in the Middle East, particularly the Red Sea region of Arabia and east Africa where the locals seemed to take a fancy to them. They do not bear clear and easily readable mintmarks, but slight variations in the artwork can reveal their origin and approximate date of issue. This website offers a summary.
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 Posted 02/23/2015  4:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hoosiergator to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Is most of the collection this era English coinage?
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