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Hello,
About 2 years ago, i was MD'ing my front yard. The house dates 30 years and (as i later found out) the lot dates to at least 1870. I got a nice hit a few inches down and i got a half dollar sized coin. It was quite dirty and corroded, so i cleaned it up and looked at the date. Almost had a heart attack! It had a date of 1796! Some research latter yielded it was a Spanish 8 escudos, except there was one problem, it was made with the wrong metal. It is made of some sort of copper alloy, i think. The reason i give for this wrong metal is that it could have been a counterfeit (very likely since this is a high value coin at that time) or it could have been a token made because the Spanish had very little coinage because America was using the coinage too. I don't believe it is a casting, the lines are too sharp, and i don't think it was a modern counterfeit, the gold would have stayed on.
What do you think?
HH
-GC
About 2 years ago, i was MD'ing my front yard. The house dates 30 years and (as i later found out) the lot dates to at least 1870. I got a nice hit a few inches down and i got a half dollar sized coin. It was quite dirty and corroded, so i cleaned it up and looked at the date. Almost had a heart attack! It had a date of 1796! Some research latter yielded it was a Spanish 8 escudos, except there was one problem, it was made with the wrong metal. It is made of some sort of copper alloy, i think. The reason i give for this wrong metal is that it could have been a counterfeit (very likely since this is a high value coin at that time) or it could have been a token made because the Spanish had very little coinage because America was using the coinage too. I don't believe it is a casting, the lines are too sharp, and i don't think it was a modern counterfeit, the gold would have stayed on.
What do you think?
HH
-GC
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