Coin Newbie With A Old Coin? British?

It is not British, but Spanish colonial. Charles II of Spain, date looks like 1778.

Suspiciously discolored and crude, likely to be counterfeit; perhaps contemporary.

Don't know enough to comment further (in particular, I have no idea where is the mintmark supposed to be).

EDIT: wait, no, 1778 is Charles III, but the coin clearly says Charles II. Weird. Anyone willing to call the Spanish Colonial counterfeit experts? I know we have a few...

First off, welcome.

I'd also say it's most likely a Spanish colonial contemporary counterfeit, originally silver coated or maybe even only tinned. No marked denomination, so diameter would indicate what it was being passed as.

Another not too dissimilar to this one was also recently posted.

See: http://goccf.com/t/316485

Not quite so light as I might have expected, but still underweight and clearly not silver. The diameter corresponds to that of a genuine 2 reales.

The Kleeberg CCC2R's were done/written in three parts:

Part 1 - This COAC book ~ 50 varieties.

Part 2 - The CNL Update - April 2011 - Colonial Newsletter - also use the Eric Newman Portal under JOURNALS ~ 50 varieties or if an MNA member see the Library section.

Part 3 - Forgotten Coins of the North American Colonies - 25th Anniversary (2017) ~ 50 varieties in Chapter 2.

There is EXACTLY 160 varieties to date. But we HIT THE WALL. Maybe 1 variety surfaces every year now ... maybe.

John Lorenzo
New Jersey

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