Need a real specialist

[Doug H]

Found this cut silver today and was wondering if someone could ballpark me a date on it. Looked them up but I cant tell which kind it is. Thanks for any help.

 

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[ARC]

Can you please post a picture of the other side.

Btw... Very nice... in great condition.

 

[Doug H]

Sorry, here's the other side. It's more worn than the first side I posted

 

[Doug H]

I found a 1/2 real not far from this that was very badly worn that I could make out the lion in the crest and the sp out of the word hispan and a bit of the column and swag. But this doesn't look like that type of real...or at least those years. If I had all four quarters it would be bigger than the half but not huge

 

[Mr. Digger]

Looks like maybe a Pistareen. Congrats!

 

[ARC]

Sorry was eating dinner...

Agreed,,, I also on first glance say a pistareen.

 

[ARC]

This is an "odd" one... the lone "P" is throwing me.

 

[Doug H]

Yeah, I noticed the lone p. Thanks guys, I'll investigate a pistareen

 

[smokeythecat]

It is a pistareen. I'm going to GUESS 1720-1770. NICE find! I hardly ever get them, and I dig a lot of colonial spots.

 

[Doug H]

Thanks smokey, yep, I found a pic of a 1727 pistareen that another treasure net poster found and that's exactly what it is. Thanks for the help guys, your the best. Wish it would have been a whole one but I love it.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congrats on the cut silver!

 

[xcopperstax]

Excellent find there! Congrats on a really cool item in my mind it's just as good as the whole coin!!!

 

[Mackaydon]

Maybe like this:

Don......

 

[WilliamBoyd]

It is neat to find a cut quarter of a Spanish pistareen.

These two are from my collection:

Spain two reales 1725 Seville mint
Silver, 23 mm, 5.88 gm

Spain two reales 1725 Madrid mint
Silver, 23 mm, 5.12 gm

More than you ever wanted to know about pistareens:
http://numismatics.org/wikiuploads/CNL/Pistareens.pdf