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Coincollector

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Hi i have this coin and i’m not sure what it is it looks celtic, though i could be wrong. Not sure if its gold or not. Hopefully someone can give me an idea of what it might be thanks.

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It does rather look like the one-sided Celtic quarter stater, but your pictures are way too small to be certain. The metal is wrong - should be billon silver not gold or brass.

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1 minute ago, Coincollector said:

How can you tell that it’s silver?

You could do it from precise measurement and then weight, but I tend to go on 'look' (which is not always correct). However, unless you have a dreadful colour cast on your photos, that looks brass or gold (and I don't think they even had brass back then?)

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27 minutes ago, Coincollector said:

Hi i have this coin and i’m not sure what it is it looks celtic, though i could be wrong. Not sure if its gold or not. Hopefully someone can give me an idea of what it might be thanks.

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Where did you acquire it from if you don't mind me asking? 

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1 hour ago, rpeddie said:

Good work. Here is a website listing the weights of fanam coins. Yours is right bang on. https://taxfreegold.co.uk/indianfanams.html

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Interesting. That's a very Celtic-like design.

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35 minutes ago, Peckris said:

Interesting. That's a very Celtic-like design.

true that, always have to do a double take when i see one to make sure its not a £40 celtic stater :)

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The picture is very small, but from what I can see the design looks less crude than the link to the fanams. Is it genuine?

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A good close-up picture would help so that you can see the fields and engraving clearly. With an image that size, even the Westair repros would look ok.

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By the quality of the strike it's almost certainly a Dutch strike, maybe Cochin, which puts it before 1825.

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