How Far Back Can We Go? Sixth Edition! Ended At 1380 Waiting On 1379

This 2 Liards is insurrection coinage from the Austrian Netherlands (1790 AD)

1789 -- French Guiana / Colony of Cayenne, 2 sous:

1789 - British halfpenny token - George, Prince of Wales
D&H Middlesex (National Series) 970
R (scarce)

Slightly oval planchet and weak central strike as seen on other known examples. Straight milled edge with offset reeding.

Obv: The prince's bust left / "PRINCE REGENT."
A die chip is underneath the C in PRINCE and is present on all examples of #970.

Rev: A crown centered with 9 pearls per side / "HE HOLDS IT FOR THE KING". Date of 1789 under a double line ex. which almost touches the legend.

A nice 1789 or AM 1218 "Elephant" Paisa from the Kingdom of Mysore (India) - Minted at Nagar under Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore.

Between 1785-1799 he went to war four times, and lost four times, the last two to the British East India Company's soldiers and mercenaries, resulting in the creation of the Princely State of Mysore, "ruled" by the Boy King Krishnaraja Wodeyar III at the wise old age of 4 years, in concert with British advisors and EIC administrators.

The British Empire then proceeded to demand tribute and subsidy payments for thirty more years before staging a coup by accusing the King of defaulting on his payments and promptly installing the EIC administrators as de facto rulers until 1868, when they returned the Wodeyars to the throne once more.

Makes you wonder why they staged the coup in the first place, but such were the caprices and whims of the Empire On Which The Sun Never Sets in those mid-19th century days.

I can offer a guess - a far out one, but here goes.

In December 1816 Tsar Alexander I of the Russian Empire visited London and the party landed at Dover arriving by coach and some on horseback in London, they were entertained by the Prime Minister and the Prince regent, the party of 100 or more Russian nobles, soldiers and hanger ons had a merry old time in London town (Appaently the brothels went nuts) and maybe one of these Russian valiants dropped it on a ride out into the country.

The coin would have been 25 years old at the time and suits the wear, plus its brown, could easily be lost in the winter mud. And it is just 5 kopecks, so a noble would hardly miss it.

1780s are kinda tough for Poland.

Time to start with some of the early US coinage.

Arkie, I love your Spanish dollar with the Chinese chop marks, they were done by the Chinese merchants to make sure the coin was real. Their appetite for silver coin was part of what led to the Opium wars.