Hello, We have a coin that is ferdinand II of aragon , known as the catholic we have looked on teh museu nacional d'art de catalunya and it matches a coin in their museum it is under collection as numismatics named as above says mint .majorca and is gold adn exact measurements as this one on their pics of coins in the museum , i was going to ring the museum but does anyone here know of this coinage at all, with kind regards
Appears to be a plated cast copy. Looks like the casting port might have been above the V by the corner of the crown. The edges are irregular and do not appear to match up between the two sides. Look at the IC by the upper right corner of the shield where the obv side extends out beyond the rev side.I'm fairly sure if you look you will find a casting seam. It looks like there are breaks in the plating on the reverse, and unlike the museum coin there is something behind the King's neck which is probably a symbol indicating that it is a copy or replica.
ok thanks for your help , i spoke to the museum , is based in Barcelona they advised me to go to our local museum , bit difficult as we are in Ibiza and as you can imagine our museum is on a very small scale , but apparently they should have a book to clarify the identity etc in more detail than we have traced , so it looks like a replica then, hence i am presuming there is no value in it . Many thanks for your help
sorry just another question on the subject of replica , do you mean that a casting of this coin would of been done in that era , as would of thought there would not of been the facility to do it, or a more recent casting , i dont understand why someone would cast an old coin as this , but then i have no knowledge of coins hence asking yourselves so i apologise for my ignorance, we noticed the symbol of some kind behind the kings neck , i did not query that with the museum , it actuallly looks brighter in the pic on here than it is , thanks again
Not necessarily. More likely it was cast long after that series was made, for the purposes of duping unsuspecting collectors into believing it's an authentic piece from the period. China does it all the time with our U.S. Trade Dollars, and Morgan's from the 19th century. Trade dollars were struck by the U.S. Mint in the 1800's for export to Asia to compete with large dollars of other countries there. The Chinese have been making cast fakes for decades and many of them have infiltrated the U.S. numismatic community. This is one reason for the HPA or Hobby Protection Act being passed, which requires copies or replicas of genuine U.S. coins to be labeled as such.
Thank you for your reply , we were advised to take it to our local museum , they said that all museums should hold a book of information on coins etc, but as you can imagine living on a little island i think it may be different here, do you think we are wasting our time in going up that road, as it seems to me that maybe that symbol is the sign that this has been copied as you said they have been doing ,
You've received opinions from sever CT members who are quite knowledgeable that it's a fake, and they're seeing that from a photo online and can tell it's a fake. IMO, I wouldn't waste my, or the museum's, time with it.
