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Author Topic: 26 mm bronze coin. No portrait  (Read 1512 times)

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Mackdon2

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26 mm bronze coin. No portrait
« on: December 21, 2013, 09:03:32 am »
Found this in my granddads collection of foreign coins that my son and I have been going through.  I can't find anything on it, or if it is even a coin and not a novelty

Manzikert

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Re: 26 mm bronze coin. No portrait
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2013, 10:58:27 am »
It is a copy of a Spanish silver coin of Ferdinand and Isabella.

These are quite common in white metal as a couple of drug companies produced them in the early 1970's and distributed them to doctors: whether yours has just been handled so much that all the plating has worn off I don't know, but the originals were made in silver.

See https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=89489.0 for another extremely similar example.

Alan

Mackdon2

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Re: 26 mm bronze coin. No portrait
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2013, 10:52:43 pm »
Ha I had a feeling it was fake from the lack of detail and signs of mechanical striking, however, I still could not figure out what it was a fake of.  Thanks a bunch; people like yourself, who share their expertise throughout this site and in a personal manner through the discussions board, make this site a truly great, even priceless, resource.  I really do appreciate it!

 

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