Dug This Spanish Real out of a Northern California park...

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Dug up this Spanish coin a few weeks ago. It's a Spanish Real from 1748. It's about the size of a U.S. nickel. What do you know about it?

 

[Pistareen]

This coin is even older than you think and not a cob. It is a Philip V, Pillar, one "real" of Mexico from 1745. He died in 1747. It has so much wear that it may well have circulated for a hundred years and been lost in 1845, or for that matter could be a kid's "show and tell" lost recently. The hole gives it character. It would have been worth 12.5 federal cents or one "bit." Great find!

 

[Mackaydon]

The "PHS V..." shows that it is from the reign of Felipe V.
This variety was minted between 1742 and 1747 though Felipe had died on July 11, 1746.
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