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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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I see the owl too. Can this be voted as the coin of the week?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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manilagalleontrade- I didn't know that a coin had to be voted as the coin of the week, but sure. It hereby is the coin of the week.
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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I think I saw it somewhere. Coin of the week.
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
1361 Posts |
 This is a Sri Lankan ancient coin. I know it is not the same but does it have a similarity in style? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3499 Posts |
manilagalleontrade- hmm yeah, I definitely see a similarity. Very interesting.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 There's something similar there... |
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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But it seems to be thinner.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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DL20K- true. And it seems to be larger. SO our mystery coin may be a larger denomination.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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manilagalleontrade, what are the dimensions and weight of your sri lanka coin?
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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Xshift, The coin is not mine I just googled it as I remember seeing similar sri lankan ancient coin before. Maybe from here we can find out what really is this coin, if it is a coin. I bet incredible SAP can be of big help here.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I bet you're right.. hopefully he'll wake up soon  I saw some similarity on some ancient japanese coins (been perusing lots of ancients looking for ANYthing close to this) - lots of wavy lines, etc. They also use an 'x' as 10, but not quite so square as on this thing. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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Xshift are those pictures the same coin or are those the japanese coin you are talking about? File is too big and too slow, I think its my PC.
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I haven't responded to this thread previously, because I frankly have no idea what to make of it. But the more I've looked at it, the more I'm agreeing with Archraz's original hypothesis: Quote:
I think that is just a really, really bad attempt at a reproduction cob 8 reales or escudo coin... Here's a pic of the coin, in my best guess of the correct orientation, compared to a "perfect" Potosi-mint 8 reales cob of the 1700's:  You can particularly see the lower half of the lion, in the top right quadrant of the cross. I suspect the original coin it was copied off had a great deal of the design missing, and the crude line-drawing of most of the design was an attempt to mimic the missing design elements. Pic of Potosi cob snitched from CoinArchives. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Posted 12/28/2008 10:44 pm
