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[azda 978]

Anyone else think the 4 in date is over a 6?

[davidrj 194]

Anyone else think the 4 in date is over a 6?

definite overdate for me, 7 looks rentered too

[Colin G. 147]

Or it could be over a 3 or 5, I suppose 3 may be the sensible option, need to see what the other digits on those looked like

[Peckris 579]

I was going to say 5, but now you mention it, it could be a 3 too.

[Nordle11 564]

Looks like a 6! Colin might be right about checking what the other digits actually look like. These ones are fairly bog standard though.

Edited March 26, 2014 by Nordle11

[azda 978]

I'm goimg to go with a 6 because i can see itthrough the centre of the 4 then loops round. The beginnimg of it curves in the opposite direction to be a 3, it starts like a 6 would. The quesrion is, why a 6 in 1740, this is also an unrecorded error as far as i can see

So, what i was or am trying to say is for it to be a 3 it would have to curve from left to right, but this is curving right to left.

Edited March 26, 2014 by azda

[just.me 23]

Anyone else think the 4 in date is over a 6?

Is this a Mexican 1/2 Real?

Standard Catalogue of World coins lists a 1740/30 KM65 obverse having the MF mintmark.

[just.me 23]

The 2,4 and 8 Reales also has a 1740/30 overdate. No overdate found on the 1 Real

[Rob 3,106]

I'm goimg to go with a 6 because i can see itthrough the centre of the 4 then loops round. The beginnimg of it curves in the opposite direction to be a 3, it starts like a 6 would. The quesrion is, why a 6 in 1740, this is also an unrecorded error as far as i can see

So, what i was or am trying to say is for it to be a 3 it would have to curve from left to right, but this is curving right to left.

Why does it have to be any particular character? Given most of these are punched in error, it follows that the punch wasn't checked before use. i.e it could be anything, even just a short straight or curved line punch as opposed to a letter or number. There is no certainty that the digit underneath had to be genuine, or that it had to be valid elsewhere in the series. It does hint of a 6 to my mind.

Edited March 26, 2014 by Rob

[azda 978]

Its a 4 Reales justme

[scott 142]

not recent recent, but I said i would show it when i uploaded the picture

[azda 978]

A recent

Edited April 10, 2014 by azda

[davidrj 194]

OK, I know it's not milled, and I know it's not bronze or copper but.......................

.............sometimes a coin just takes your fancy - this little billon penny just appealed for the bizarre beady eyed portrait - plus a decent grade on a nice full flan, and a legend even I could read

JACOBUS REX, ARAGON

seller's pictures

It's a denier of James I of Aragon 1213-1276 - Wiki entry

I honestly didn't expect to win this, but I got it for the opening bid of €20 so £20 with postage

PS who here remembers Marty Feldman??

David

Edited April 10, 2014 by davidrj

[scott 142]

it has all gone a bit french

so lets start with an Ivan IV kopeck, or to give his better known name, the terrible

and a malteaser...... Order of Malta one grano to give its proper name

[scott 142]

and back to the french again

1789, A 2 sous Unbarred A in NAV - came in of 4 coins for £3.25 (also had a 1 piastre from syria 1936. palastine 1927 10 mills, and a british west africa 1/10 penny 1923)

its gaston again

[scott 142]

[scott 142]

all these tournois and this for £16.40

[azda 978]

Its all gone a bit German now

[azda 978]

And a couple more

[scott 142]

[davidrj 194]

Super portraits on that Saxony coin

[azda 978]

Ist a doppelthaler David of their Golden wedding anniversary. There's 2 types, not sure which this is yet, but i'm hoping ist a milled rim, the other is the normal kerbed rim

[davidrj 194]

Ist a doppelthaler David of their Golden wedding anniversary. There's 2 types, not sure which this is yet, but i'm hoping ist a milled rim, the other is the normal kerbed rim

They look far more like real people, compared to most stylised royal portraits

Edited April 20, 2014 by davidrj

[azda 978]

The Eichendorff and Magraff are rarer issues 300-500 euros depending on grade

[copper123 1,434]

wasn't he the one born of victoria , queen victorias oldest ofspring who started the first world war - a very bad man - also many believe the reporations from the first world war caused the second so in the end he was responsable for quite a few european deaths .

i do belive he retired in exile and live to a good old age as well - there is never any real justice is there?