Pretty sure this is cut silver. Can anyone help identify?

[ATpro5]

A while back I posted what I thought was cut silver. It just turned out to be a piece of a aluminum token. This one looks more promising. I can see what looks to be a crown possibly? Could anyone help me identify it? I'll put the pics in the comments. Thanks!

 

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[ATpro5]

A while back I posted what I thought was cut silver. It just turned out to be a piece of a aluminum token. This one looks more promising. I can see what looks to be a crown possibly? Could anyone help me identify it? I'll put the pics in the comments. Thanks!

 

[Cross Potent]

Hey thats pretty cool. It looks similar to a Polish 3 polker coin. Here is one from 1624.

 

[ATpro5]

Hey thats pretty cool. It looks similar to a Polish 3 polker coin. Here is one from 1624.

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I think you nailed it.

 

[Cross Potent]

I think you nailed it.

I'd be EXTREMELY pleased with that find. What did you find with it?

 

[dirtlooter]

pretty cool and quick ID

 

[Ahab8]

Wow that's a great find. Don't see those often

 

[Plumbata]

Sweet find, smaller even than the tiny hammered farthings the fellas in England turn up.

I poked around and it seems that the higher-end weight of the 3 Polkers (nice ID cross potent) was 1.2 grams. 1/8th of that is 0.15 grams. A Spanish dollar was around 27 grams, so this bit of cut silver would have been the equivalent of barely more than 1/200th of that at full weight, or basically a half-cent or so at its likely current weight. That's gotta be the smallest cut silver i recall being posted here, congrats on a very very interesting find!

 

[jwarner51]

A while back I posted what I thought was cut silver. It just turned out to be a piece of a aluminum token. This one looks more promising. I can see what looks to be a crown possibly? Could anyone help me identify it? I'll put the pics in the comments. Thanks!

Spit on it and wrap it in aluminum foil. After about 10 seconds if it smells like sulfur you know it is silver.Sure looks right to me. HH!

 

[ATpro5]

Sweet find, smaller even than the tiny hammered farthings the fellas in England turn up.

I poked around and it seems that the higher-end weight of the 3 Polkers (nice ID cross potent) was 1.2 grams. 1/8th of that is 0.15 grams. A Spanish dollar was around 27 grams, so this bit of cut silver would have been the equivalent of barely more than 1/200th of that at full weight, or basically a half-cent or so at its likely current weight. That's gotta be the smallest cut silver i recall being posted here, congrats on a very very interesting find!

That's really neat plumbata. Thanks for the info. I wonder what a half-cent worth of silver could buy in the 17th & 18th centuries?

 

[BuckleBoy]

Now that's a fantastic ID! AND a GREAT find!!! Congrats on a nice 1600s silver!

 

[Mr.T]

Great find!

This might interest you in answer to your last question-
The value of money in colonial America - North Carolina Digital History

 

[park pirate]

Very good find..

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

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That's a really cool find! I've dug a lot of cut silver, but never that small, and never from a Polish coin. The pic below shows the 2 smallest ones I've dug, and the lightest of these weighs 0.41 grams which is way heavier than yours.

 

[pepperj]

Nice going on the cut piece of silver.

 

[rodarian]

Very cool and MR T, that was an interesting link. Ty for that.