square coins

[scottishmoney]

Until such time as I occasion to buy one of those Yap money stones, this is my currently largest piece in my sundry collections:

Not sure that forum allows it to be viewed at it's real image size which is approximately what it really is sized at. It is a Swedish plate 4 daler from 1731.

[Debbie]

Wow have never seen one of those before! That must weigh quite a bit. How do you store pieces like that, I would imagine that they are fairly valuable? Thanks for sharing - off to Google Swedish plate money now.

[declanwmagee]

our old friend Swedish copper!

[scottishmoney]

Wow have never seen one of those before! That must weigh quite a bit. How do you store pieces like that, I would imagine that they are fairly valuable? Thanks for sharing - off to Google Swedish plate money now.

I currently own 1 Daler 1716, 2 Daler 1728, and the 4 Daler 1731. They are particularly collectable if they are sea salvage, most of them came from a shipwreck off of South Africa that was found ca. 1987 - most of the rest were subsequently melted after they were demonetised in the 1780s. My three are all non-sea salvage and quite the pain to find, and thus are dear on the wallet. They are large, but so is the vault at my bank where they are stored in another country.