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 Posted 04/05/2015  05:12 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add dandare13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all,
First time poster here, I am struggling to identify this coin and had no luck so far. Could anyone help me with this?
Cheers, Dan

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 Posted 04/05/2015  07:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Rdwarrior to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like it might be a coin from Seville Spain during the reign of Isabel and Ferdinand.
http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/br...eville-spain
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 Posted 04/05/2015  08:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DaSlayer to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
To me it appears to be a coin from Seville, Spain.
http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/br...eville-spain
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 Posted 04/05/2015  6:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Athalbert to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It´s a 2 maravedis coin, issued at Seville (Spain) by Elisabeth and Ferdinand "the catholic kings".
Elisabeth, queen of the kingdoms of Castille and Lion, and Ferdinand, king of Aragon, gets married starting then the kingdom of Spain.
Their billon coinage was issued since 1479 till 1505, but their silver and gold coinage till 1556 because it was such a prestiged coinage in Europe that was a sort of "trade coinage".
The legends, according to laws must be: "FERNANDUS ET ISABEL DEI GRACIA, REX ET REGINA CASTRA LEGIONIS" ("Fernandus and Isabel by God´s grace, king and Queen of Castille and Lion"), but always appears abbreviated and sometimes slighty changed as in your case.
So the obverse legend in your coin is: "FERNANDUS : 7 : ELISABET : DE : + :"
And thev reverse legend: "REX : 7 : REGINA : CASTILL : 7 : L : + :"
Castilla means "land of castles" so sometimes it was used the latin word "CASTRA" (military fortified camp) to design it.
León means "Lion", but becomes from the name of his capital city that takes his name of latin word "LEGIO" (Legion) because it was born as the home of the Legio VI Victrix in 29 B.C. and much later of Legio VII Gemina in 74 A.D.
More information for classifying all copper and billon coins of Spain and his former kingdoms in: http://www.maravedis.org/reyescatolicos.html
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04/05/2015 6:33 pm
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 Posted 04/05/2015  9:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrsmat71 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
i had no idea what it was, but it's a cool coin..

Dan
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 Posted 04/06/2015  01:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dandare13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks a lot for all the information, much appreciated!
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