My turn for help with an Old Copper ID

[Don in SJ]

My son just emailed me that he found this coin this afternoon, here in town, by the river, which is an old area. Gee, I turned down going with him today. Anyway, he says it is thin, and has on it a big 1/4 and the numbers 820 are visible and on the other side looks like a Cross.

So far I have come up empty-handed on this one.

Don

Added a bit lighter photo of it.

 

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[Montana Jim]

Don? If you don't know what it is... how do you expect US to know?

You are the one we rely on for old coppers! LOL

I've been looking... nothing comes close... I betcha it's foreign.

 

[PBK]

I believe that this may be an 1820 Royalist 1/4 real of Santa Marta, Colombia. These were rather crude and varied a good deal, making exact comparison somewhat difficult. Here are a couple of varieties. There is a better example at the following link; however, you must be signed in to view sharp closeups of both sides.

http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=410&Lot_No=16600&src=pr#Photo

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[aa battery]

Jim is right Don if you dont know who will ....aa

 

[Don in SJ]

I believe that this may be an 1820 Royalist 1/4 real of Santa Marta, Colombia.

Thanks PBK, will pursue that, it is interesting, that basically was my son's wild guess, sort of , I tried looking at that area first and drew a blank!! Here is an excerpt from his email to me:

figured it wasn’t a pulltab so I checked it out. Right within the mulch I turned up what I initially thought looked like a nickel, but when I picked it up it was really thin and then I saw what appeared to be a cross. Flipped it over and I saw a great big ¼ plus the numbers 820 of a date.

So then, I’m not sure what it is. It could be a copper ¼ reale from some Spanish colony, or a ¼ something else from another place. It looks like it may have been a bit crude to begin with, and the soil was rough.

 

[CoppaMan]

Right you are PBK Nice ID

http://www.pdxcoinclub.org/gallery/SpanishColonialColombianCoins/gallery6.html

 

[COUNTRY GIRL]

Thats not only a nice ID, that's a wicked nice coin! What an addition to his collection!

 

[oldplacesnofinds]

Terrific find, I am jealous.

 

[dgaughan]

that is an excellent find congrats to your son don good luck and hh