a 1724 coin or token?

[Guest denspear]

Hi,

I am new to this forum, and have a mystery coin that I am trying to identify. I am a curator at an early 18th century British colonial town and fort site. The majority of the coins in our collection are British ha' pennies (no surprise there) with a few spanish coins. Among this collection is the mystery coin. I'm not sure if it is legal coin or a token of some sort...heck I'm not even positive if it is British.

This coin is made from copper (possibly bronze), has a diameter 2.4 cm. On one side there is a image of three crowns in a triangular formation. Over the crowns are the capital letters: F R S and below the crowns is the date: 1724. On the opposite side there is a crown (of a different styling then the ones in front) over a shield with two crossed arrows inside it. Feather ends are down and the tips are up. There are symbols outside the shield, located near the four corners of the shield. The symbols are (in order from top left clockwise): I (almost looks like a stylized arrow), GR, M, K.

I GR

K M

I am NOT looking for a value on this. We just want to know what it is.....

Any help will be appreciated.

Denise

[mint_mark]

Hello,

The crossed arrows and the three crowns both suggest Sweden to me, but unfortunately I don't have a catalogue that goes back that far. Hopefully someone else can identify it more precisely.

[Rob]

Very good Mint Mark. It's a 3 ore from Sweden. ref KM253.1, mintage just over 12 million and gives values of VG $1, Fine $2.25, VF $8.00 and XF $40

[Rob]

Very good Mint Mark. It's a 3 ore from Sweden. ref KM253.1, mintage just over 12 million and gives values of VG $1, Fine $2.25, VF $8.00 and XF $40

Sorry, brain in neutral, it's a 1 not 3 ore. Everything else applies.

[mint_mark]

So the denomination, described as GR... is it actually ÖR?

[Rob]

So the denomination, described as GR... is it actually ÖR?

Yes.

[krasnaya_vityaz]

Are these coins on display? I sure like to go to these sites and see the coins they have excavated on display, my personal favourite was seeing a Lord Calvert Penny from the 1650's at St. Marie's Citty in Maryland. They even sold very nice copies of the coin in the gift shoppe, I have probably 5-6 of them somewhere.

[Guest denspear]

Hi again,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction...it is a 1 ore piece from Sweden. Turns out that we have 2 in the collection one from Ulrike Eleonora (1718-1720) and one from Frederick I (1720-1750).

Right now neither of these coins are on display but occasionally researchers use our collection, which is how these coins were brought to my attention.

Thanks again,

Denise