spanish coin..but which one

swampratvabch

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I was thinking Charles (Carlos) the third (III), as it is milled, but I dont see any that have that wording on the front. Maybe it not Spanish, hard to say.
 

cuzcosquirrel

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It's Hapsburgh empire. Probably Spanish. Looks like Charles the III monagram. Could be a continental 1/2 pistareen cut into a cuatro, or 1/4 real. It would have been worth about 3 cents. A lot of coins like this circulated in the 1700's and early 1800's.
 

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This is a cut piece from a 1707-14 homeland Spain 2 Reales, minted in the name of Charles III (the Habsburg pretender). Example shown below... He claimed to the the legitimate Habsburg dynasty heir to the Spanish throne when the Habsburg Charles II died childless in 1700. He held parts of Spain (I think Catalonia w/Barcelona) for a while before the Bourbon heir, King Philip V, consolidated power.

Quite a few of these 2 Reales were produced and still exist, though you don't see many "cut" pieces from them - usually they're from the Philip V pieces of about a decade later. Note that the Spain 2 Reales (aka a "pistareen") had diverged down in silver content/value from the Colonial 2R - it took roughly (5) of these pistareens (or more, as the silver content of the pistareen fluctuated greatly in the early 1700's) to make (4) Mexican 2 Reales coins or a full Mexican 8 Reales peso. So, this cut Spain piece was basically 1/20 of a Mexican peso, or 5 cents under a dollars/cents system.

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swampratvabch

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Re: spanish coin

Yes thank you and "Realewatcher" should be on my favorites because I'm going out to get my second one...thanks again.
 

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umrgolf

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from your screen name,I assure you this won't be your last cut pistareen :thumbsup: I had around 10 last year in H. Roads.

btw, the one you dug is the first out of MANY ive seen that's the earlier one as identified here by realeswatcher, great find :headbang:
 

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