1773 King George III Brittania

[phillipofnc]

First time posting on this board..... A few years back I found a 1773 George III Brittania coin. Any idea on value besides personal pride in finding it. I found it while hunting arrowheads. I now use a Bounty Hunter but live two hours from the field I found it in. I found it along a newly dug ditch.

 

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[pd_squires]

First time posting on this board..... A few years back I found a 1773 George III Brittania coin. Any idea on value besides personal pride in finding it. I found it while hunting arrowheads. I now use a Bounty Hunter but live two hours from the field I found it in. I found it along a newly dug ditch.

Do you have any idea what this is

 

[histoplasmosis]

Phillip thers a what is this thread on this board just FYI were you could post your pick and let the vultures that lurk around there tell you what it is.

 

[Coin_Saver]

That coin u showed us PD is in very very good cond i may have no ideas at all what coin it is it certainly looks valuable, well hope somebody will tell u WHAT it is, HH CS

 

[kenb]

Cant help with an ID either but what a great find!!! how do you top that!

 

[loganworks]

go to Minelabowners ,com and join then post a pict. someone there will be able to id it.

 

[nicknyc]

hey pd... don't know if you got this answered elsewhere, but that's 8 reales... spanish colonial currency.... here's a link...

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ages?q=%228+reales%22&start=20&hl=en&lr=&sa=N

that predates the one i got for christmas last year by 30 years! and you found yours?! awesome. please tell where you found it!

 

[GWW]

In response to the question posted by pd_squires:

You coin is a copy of a 1736 Spanish gold 8 escudos. IF it were the real thing it would be worth $2500-$4000. Happy Hunting, GWW

 

[nicknyc]

hmm... it isn't the right color for silver, is it? lol... how can one tell that its a copy?

 

[GWW]

hmm... it isn't the right color for silver, is it?? lol...? how can one tell that its a copy?

Here is a picture of a genuine one. http://www.sedwickcoins.com/070416111002.jpg Many copies exist of these since not too many collectors can afford a nice one. If yours were genuine it would likely fetch more than $5000 because it is in fantastic condition. I can tell its a copy just by looking at it. You can weight it. The weight needs to be 27.064 grams. My guess is your copy is close to 1/2 that. Best, GWW

 

[Ocean7]

usually they don't come out of the ground in very good shape but I'd look on e-bay for going prices to get a ballpark figure. Copper patina gets pretty nasty after 100 or more years. Still it's a great find!