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Pillar of the Community
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Does anyone collect Coin Weights, like this 27.2gm one for checking Spanish 8 reales?
Bill 
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United States
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Very interesting. Do you own this? These weights would have a lot of history. Any others Bill?
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Canada
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I don't collect them but came upon this a while ago so I picked it up. I believe it's a 1620ish James I 1/2 Laurel weight out of England (I'd rather have the actual 1/2 Laurel, but oh well). It's in rough shape but I still think it's pretty neat.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Neat, atscaper! I have a few from the UK, but no book to help with identification.
And, bpoc1, here is another Spanish one. I have it marked as a Phillip IIII 4 reales weight. (Seems sort of high in weight at 18.2gms. I'll have to get it out and recheck).
  Bill
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Canada
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I believe I only have this relatively modern one.   Oops, didn't realize the photos were so blurry. Edited by chequer
06/16/2015 4:42 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I picked this one up from a fellow CCF'r on ebay on a whim. (1727-1760) Great Britain George II 1 Guinea Coin Weight ~ 19 MM The pics are not mine, they are the seller's.  |
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United States
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Bill, would the Coin Weight in the OP be used for Hacienda coins?
I do not know dates when these early coins would have been made.
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United States
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While I'm familiar with coin weights, I hadn't seen one with the castles & lions on it. That's neat!
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Pillar of the Community
778 Posts |
matttheriley's Guinea weight is right nice too!!
Bill
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm not particularly married to it, since I neither collect coin weights or guineas. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink...  |
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Canada
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It would be neat to have coin weights for corresponding coins in a collection. Only problem for me is that they are mainly for gold coins which for some odd reason can be fairly expensive.
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 United States
1949 Posts |
Nice Guinea weight Matt!  I had a Portugese Moidor coin weight as well, but I have since sold it... https://goccf.com/t/228971Very interesting pieces of history I knew nothing about a month ago! |
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United States
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I have one of the coins that match the first weight, a Philip IV eight reales of Segovia. Does anyone else have matching coins for the other weights pictured?   |
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Pillar of the Community
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NICE, Pistereen! Puts my Phillip IIII 8 real (cleaned, etc), to shame -
 (Write me if you want to discuss this series). Bill
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MathieuMa, I would like to have your Segovia 4 real! Mine, I'm afraid, is a cob from the Seville Mint.
Bill
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Posted 06/16/2015 4:23 pm
