Featured "Guess the coin" challenge!

Here's a close-up of the reverse of a newly acquired coin of mine. Can anyone correctly identify it?

 

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No. I can't but I have a key.

 

Haha! Nice try!

 

It reminds me of a British Condor token

 

Another clue might help!

 

What's the Two Quarts all about. Is that 2 Quarts of Beer?

 

Thanks for playing, everyone!

Winner winner chicken dinner!

GIBRALTAR
Time of Victoria, 1837-1901
CU 2 Quarts (28.0mm, 10.50g, 12h)
Dated 1842/1. Royal mint, London, UK
Obverse: VICTORIA D: G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F: D: around “Young Head” portrait of Queen Victoria left, date below
Reverse: Castle with three turrets; GIBRALTAR above, small key above TWO QUARTS. below
References: Numista 17866
Mintage: 48,000​

With its elevated position overlooking the narrow entrance/exit to the Mediterranean Sea, the peninsula of Gibraltar, on the southern coast of Spain, has long been recognized as an important strategic stronghold. The first permanent fortress on Gibraltar was built by the Almohad Sultan Abd al-Mu’Min in 1160, after the Islamic conquest of Iberia. Over the next several centuries, Gibraltar passed back and forth between various powers as they fought for control over the peninsula. The British acquired it in 1713 after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht towards the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, and Gibraltar remains a territory of the United Kingdom to this day.
The reverse of this coin depicts the famous “Castle and Key”, the coat of arms of Gibraltar which was granted by Spain’s Queen Isabella I in 1501.

I'll take a look at what I've got later today and see about posting up another.

 

I'll be honest, I personally did not recognize the key.

But I do think it is cool how so many countries/regions can instantly be identified by a unique symbol. That's something I always point out to newer collectors.

Did anyone have an old paper copy of the phonebook size Krause? At the very beginning, in the intro text, they had a section with the unique symbols of each country - if you saw that symbol, you *knew* it was that country. I spent hours studying that chart.

 

Here we go everyone!

Guess the coin.

This may be obvious to some, opaque to others.

 

A very shrewd guess. Let's see if anyone else will get it!

 

My first thought it is a Ceylon one stiver similar to my two.