✅ SOLVED Old coin?? Updated Pic

[jws845]

Found this way up high on the beach about 14 inches down. It rang up a solid 24 on the equinox 600. It is very thin and worn. I tried to get some pics at an angle to help with an id. It is roughly the size of a quarter. Thanks for any help.
I've added another pic and was looking through my coin book, could this be a colonial six-pence?

 

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[l.cutler]

A sixpence would be silver. This looks like a copper coin that has been flattened out? If you can get an accurate weight, that might help ID.

 

[rick67]

Looks like an arrow to me.

 

[jws845]

A sixpence would be silver. This looks like a copper coin that has been flattened out? If you can get an accurate weight, that might help ID.

Thanks, it is copper and weighs 3.8 grams or .109 oz Hope this helps and thanks again for your reply

 

[sprailroad]

Could there be a R.R. Track up above where you found it? My first thought was what I call "Railroad" money. Flattened penny's I have found near crossings over the years.

 

[jws845]

Could there be a R.R. Track up above where you found it? My first thought was what I call "Railroad" money. Flattened penny's I have found near crossings over the years.

No R.R. tracks as it was on the beach. Posting an update on the item now.

 

[jws845]

*** Update*** I sent the images to a university professor who is charge of the numismatic collection and these are his first thoughts: "It's a pretty worn coin, on which I can see a crowned bust, facing, on one side and a rampant lion on the other. Maybe fifteenth-century Castile-Leon, but many other possibilities. Beyond that, however, it will be a fair amount of rummaging through sources to locate." He is going to follow up with me later as the semester is starting and he is a bit busy.

 

[unclemac]

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[treytt]

Found this way up high on the beach about 14 inches down. It rang up a solid 24 on the equinox 600. It is very thin and worn. I tried to get some pics at an angle to help with an id. It is roughly the size of a quarter. Thanks for any help.
I've added another pic and was looking through my coin book, could this be a colonial six-pence?

What beach you found it on would be very helpful. I suggest looking up Coin Beach in Delaware. There are loads of finds that look just like that. I wouldn't trust my fuzzy memory, but I think they were from one of the British Isles that keep washing up from a shipwreck nearby (the second photo from a post of finds on Coin Beach Delaware by Smokeythecat who is a member here, I will remove if he requests it):

"Harry Wenzel did extensive historical research on the Faithful Steward shipwreck off the Indian River Inlet in 1785, which left 180 passengers and crew dead and dumped 400 barrels of copper coins into the water, creating 'Coin Beach,' where the coins have often washed up over the years.

In the category of “the truth is often stranger than fiction,” author Harry Wenzel brings to readers his second non-fiction shipwreck story, “The Ship Faithful Steward: A Story of Scots-Irish, English, and Irish Migration to Pennsylvania.” It could well be a page-turner for this winter’s reading, and the book is due to be sold in Lewes — where much of Wenzel’s research at the Lewes Historical Society was conducted — starting right after Thanksgiving."

 

[jws845]

check through these

Items from Spain – Numista

All coins from Spain, presented with pictures, descriptions and more useful information: metal, size, weight, date, mintage...

en.numista.com

Thanks for the info - I'll check it out

 

[jws845]

What beach you found it on would be very helpful. I suggest looking up Coin Beach in Delaware. There are loads of finds that look just like that. I wouldn't trust my fuzzy memory, but I think they were from one of the British Isles that keep washing up from a shipwreck nearby (the second photo from a post of finds on Coin Beach Delaware by Smokeythecat who is a member here, I will remove if he requests it):

"Harry Wenzel did extensive historical research on the Faithful Steward shipwreck off the Indian River Inlet in 1785, which left 180 passengers and crew dead and dumped 400 barrels of copper coins into the water, creating 'Coin Beach,' where the coins have often washed up over the years.

In the category of “the truth is often stranger than fiction,” author Harry Wenzel brings to readers his second non-fiction shipwreck story, “The Ship Faithful Steward: A Story of Scots-Irish, English, and Irish Migration to Pennsylvania.” It could well be a page-turner for this winter’s reading, and the book is due to be sold in Lewes — where much of Wenzel’s research at the Lewes Historical Society was conducted — starting right after Thanksgiving."

Thanks for the info I'll check it out

 

[Sandog]

What beach you found it on would be very helpful. I suggest looking up Coin Beach in Delaware. There are loads of finds that look just like that. I wouldn't trust my fuzzy memory, but I think they were from one of the British Isles that keep washing up from a shipwreck nearby (the second photo from a post of finds on Coin Beach Delaware by Smokeythecat who is a member here, I will remove if he requests it):

"Harry Wenzel did extensive historical research on the Faithful Steward shipwreck off the Indian River Inlet in 1785, which left 180 passengers and crew dead and dumped 400 barrels of copper coins into the water, creating 'Coin Beach,' where the coins have often washed up over the years.

In the category of “the truth is often stranger than fiction,” author Harry Wenzel brings to readers his second non-fiction shipwreck story, “The Ship Faithful Steward: A Story of Scots-Irish, English, and Irish Migration to Pennsylvania.” It could well be a page-turner for this winter’s reading, and the book is due to be sold in Lewes — where much of Wenzel’s research at the Lewes Historical Society was conducted — starting right after Thanksgiving."

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