BobinSouthVA
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Well I've arrived at my 1 year anniversary in the hobby and decided to post my best find for the year. Heck probably best find for a life time. Was originally posted in the Today's finds forums. Don in SJ (thanks Don) helped me track down some more information regarding the coin and here was the reply from one of the top experts
"Hi Don:
Interesting: according to Cayón's book, a 1737 pistareen minted in Madrid has the assayer's initials JF from 1732-40. The assayer from Seville in 1735-36 was AP.
These are the halves of two coins.
So my best guess is that this fellow found the half pieces of two cut coins and thought they were from the same coin.
I think the left hand side of the upper image with the 17.. corresponding to the right side of the lower image with the AP and is half of a 1735 or 36 Seville two reales - but we can't see the 35 or 36.
Now the right side of the upper image with the ..37 has the Madrid mint mark in the left side of the lower image and that is the work of an assayer JF - but that half is missing.
That's my best guess. They are nice pieces and the very lucky finder made a very natural mistake. I could only solve it because I have the reference book. Cut pistareens of these dates were so common in Virginia.
So, he is saying the one half is 1737 and was minted in Madrid, Spain and the other half is 1735 or 1736 and was minted in Seville, Spain"
Thanks for looking and HH
"Hi Don:
Interesting: according to Cayón's book, a 1737 pistareen minted in Madrid has the assayer's initials JF from 1732-40. The assayer from Seville in 1735-36 was AP.
These are the halves of two coins.
So my best guess is that this fellow found the half pieces of two cut coins and thought they were from the same coin.
I think the left hand side of the upper image with the 17.. corresponding to the right side of the lower image with the AP and is half of a 1735 or 36 Seville two reales - but we can't see the 35 or 36.
Now the right side of the upper image with the ..37 has the Madrid mint mark in the left side of the lower image and that is the work of an assayer JF - but that half is missing.
That's my best guess. They are nice pieces and the very lucky finder made a very natural mistake. I could only solve it because I have the reference book. Cut pistareens of these dates were so common in Virginia.
So, he is saying the one half is 1737 and was minted in Madrid, Spain and the other half is 1735 or 1736 and was minted in Seville, Spain"
Thanks for looking and HH
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