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Help Identifying This Coin I Believe It Appears Ancient?

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 Posted 01/06/2021  12:54 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add ae802000 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello everyone.

I have this coin that I have no idea what it is. Help identifying it would be greatly appreciated.

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 Posted 01/06/2021  2:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add norantyki to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like some sort of fantasy piece (inscriptions are gobbledygook, and the design is crude) imitating late 16th - early 17th century lowlands coinage (Dutch lion with bundle of arrows / arms that vaguely look Spanish Netherlands-y) .
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 Posted 01/06/2021  4:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add erafjel to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think it tries to look like a Spanish real, like this: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces115127.html

But looks strange and the inscriptions too are just strange. Not a genuine coin.
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 Posted 01/06/2021  6:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ae802000 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree I think it is a fake spanish reale.
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It is almost a perfect circle. I don't know much about ancient coins but that doesn't seem right.

Also, I have no idea what it could be sorry

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Correct, it's a rather crude replica of a Spanish "reyes Catolicos" silver reale. The genuine coins date from the time of Ferdinand and Isabella, the monarchs that sent Columbus on his way.

I do not know where these replicas with the garbled legends originated, but there's an awful lot of them around, and often cause confusion when they are found. We've seen them here on the forum many, many times. Example 1. Example 2. Example 3. Example 4.

If I had to guess, my guess would be a mass giveaway item - in a cereal box, or perhaps one of those Readers Digest giveaway gimmicks.
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