Help! Whats this coin?

[Kgogerly]

Need help identifying this coin?!

Pictures aren’t brilliant, one side looks like a cross, and the other a coat if arms? Found in the uk

 

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[tjb200]

Any idea what type of metal it is?


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[tjb200]

Also can you make out any writing on it?


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[Kgogerly]

I think its either copper or bronze, there is some sort of writing around the edge, but cannot make out what it says?!

 

[chub]

Spain philip V 1/2 reale

Chub

 

[Kgogerly]

1/2 real what does that mean? New to this ��

 

[tjb200]

Check this out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_real


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[chub]

google spain philip V 1/2 reale - pics

Chub

 

[chub]

1738? or thereabouts


Chub

 

[tjb200]

Hey but aren't this reals silver?


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[tjb200]

This one as Kgogerly said looks bronze or copper


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[Kgogerly]

Cool, i wonder why it would be in a field in england?

 

[chub]

https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/TmQAAOSwurVZkIrH/s-l225.jpg

This one looks bronze?

Chub

 

[tjb200]

Also his looks very thin. Possibly hammered?


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[tjb200]

Kgogerly could you take a picture of the width of the coin and post it!


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[Kgogerly]

Hammered?

 

[Kgogerly]

Its very thin x

 

[tjb200]

Hammered cons where the type of coins used up to the 17th century. They were hammered with a hammer.


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[tjb200]

Here is a wiki page about them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammered_coinage


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[Kgogerly]

I see, learning so much �� thank you