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Offline Skyler

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Why was this Phillip IV folded?
« on: July 31, 2012, 03:27:33 pm »
 This doesnt appear to have happened upon finding or after. Why would this coin have been folded?
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Re: Why was this Phillip IV folded?
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2012, 05:37:44 pm »
it looks like a contemporary forgery of a 16 maravedis struck around 1660-66
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Re: Why was this Phillip IV folded?
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2012, 06:00:13 pm »
It looks like very thin metal, and things happen to coins occasionally. I doubt whether there's any particular significance to the fold.
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Re: Why was this Phillip IV folded?
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2012, 07:40:16 pm »
 Mr. Brenchley it is very thin. I should have given dimensions but forgot to, I'm sorry. It is just thick enough to need to been done by vice but most likely not by hand 1.2 mm or so, although i'm not as strong as I used to be :)Coins have gotten me soft :)

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Re: Why was this Phillip IV folded?
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2012, 07:48:52 pm »
 Rick2 the coin in question is 1662 @ 25mm and 3.4 gr
 although I have this other 1661 @ 25mm and 4.1 gr
 I never though to question it an of the time forgery, that would be a plausible hypothesis as to why it was folded.
 Thank you very much to the both of you
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Re: Why was this Phillip IV folded?
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2012, 03:32:29 am »
Hi

I have seen a lot of spanish coins folded this way.... caused by  the action of a tractor ploughing in the land where the coin is..

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Re: Why was this Phillip IV folded?
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2012, 04:38:02 pm »
Quote from: elgitano on August 01, 2012, 03:32:29 am
Hi

I have seen a lot of spanish coins folded this way.... caused by  the action of a tractor ploughing in the land where the coin is..

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Thanks!
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