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SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10464 Posts	Posted 10/04/2011 01:33 am Can anyone help me with this one? It looks like a nicely struck coin (i.e., not hammered), but I am having trouble sorting out the scripts, in fact I may even have the coin images in the wrong orientation. I do believe it is genuine, I analyzed it on the XRF at work and it is 94.78% silver and 4.55% copper. I would like to know what this coin is, the rough date/age and an estimated value. Thanks in advance. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16872 Posts	Posted 10/04/2011 01:46 am It's not ancient. It is what's left of a Spanish "cob", after much of the edge has been filed away and made round - presumably to fit into some kind of "pirate" piece of jewellery. The top pic (rotate it 90 degrees anticlockwise) has the central bits of the Spanish coat of arms, while the bottom pic (upside-down) has the lions-and-castles in the quarters of a cross. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10464 Posts	Posted 10/07/2011 5:50 pm That was the head start I needed to research this coin! It looks like part of Phillip II Two Reales coin. Your help with this item was greatly appreciated! "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
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