Second coin question from the same dirt as the half a real....

[Chitlin]

It was surreal when the half real came out the ground, I thought it was fake. This one I just got about 20 minutes ago. After an hour of nothing I started to give up, then the penny, then the weird coin at the very outside bottom of the dirt pile.... it "feels" old. Both side are almost the same except for the wear and the 2 has a line on top of it, and is further away from the symbol to it's left, on one side. Little smaller than the penny.

Guess it's a what is it and a todays find... I'll admit I haven't attempted researching it myself yet... like a kid in a candy store. 8)

Thanks for looking.

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

A wild guess.

A "pennyweight" is 1/20 th of a troy ounce. That appears to have a royal cartouche (the lion) and maybe was a certified weight Jewlers used them to value pieces on a scale.

 

[CRUSADER]

A wild guess.

A "pennyweight" is 1/20 th of a troy ounce. That appears to have a royal cartouche (the lion) and maybe was a certified weight Jewlers used them to value pieces on a scale.

Yeap its an official bullion weight

 

[Chitlin]

So is it common? I'm having a hard time finding much on google other than bullion in general. This might be a dumb question, do yall think it is from the same time frame as the real. I have no idea. The lion cartouche is cool... I like that word...cartouche.

 

[CRUSADER]

So is it common? I'm having a hard time finding much on google other than bullion in general. This might be a dumb question, do yall think it is from the same time frame as the real. I have no idea. The lion cartouche is cool... I like that word...cartouche.

I have tried to find a similar one on line too, but can't. My experience would lead me to say with the style of numbers are no older than mid 19th century, but could easily be early 1900s.

 

[Chitlin]

Kind of bumping this back up.... no doubt a curious coin. I learned another word... "apothecary", which is basically a druggist. Someone figgures it was used for medical weight for dispensing medicines, they thought colonial.... scratched their head over the cartouche though and they couldn't find another one like it either....

One of a kind, until I find the exact specifics....

 

[CRUSADER]

Kind of bumping this back up.... no doubt a curious coin. I learned another word... "apothecary", which is basically a druggist. Someone figgures it was used for medical weight for dispensing medicines, they thought colonial.... scratched their head over the cartouche though and they couldn't find another one like it either....

One of a kind, until I find the exact specifics....

Could well be, as that was in the back of my mind but never seen this type described as a medicine weight (& I have plenty of them & they are quite different).