Just found this poking around in my minutiae and thought I would show it. Left over silver nitrate solution from lab experiments collected and reacted with bits of copper wire thrown away by the students gave me some crystaline/granular silver that I had someone melt for me in the ceramics dept. in an old crucible which was then broken off. Weight is 22.85 g and upper diameter 26 mm or so...just for fun:
"Send it to a TPG, then get back to us." Professional Experiment Grading Service. Hmm, maybe I could get inspired to start a small company...
Weeeeeeeeeell, then you'd better engrave some dies or make a punch or a mold and make it a coin, by golly! (Well, OK, technically a token or medal, anyway, since you ain't the guv'mint.) Chop chop! Get crackin' on that, already! I'll wait right here for the results.
I think he already tried ! I swear I can see a dropped letter on that thing - it's gotta be a error coin !!!
I think it's a 17th century French Laird struck on a silver planchet. BTW: stay away from the guys in the ceramic department. They're nothing but trouble, always throwing stuff in 3000F furnaces, talking about brittle fracture, and telling you about things you can't pronounce like transition metal dichalcogenides
You should post it in the 'What's It Worth' forum - at $12.83 (assuming pure silver), it would be worth more than 90% of the 'error' coins on there
I definitely see a griffin (or is it a lion), at the 3-4 o'clock position. I don't collect ancients so I can't help with the identification. Not sure it would grade with all the rim dings, MPD, road rash and the tell tale signs of being cast. Otherwise what a nice "coin". A true rarity.. List it as a rare, one of a kind find. You could get action, maybe, at $1.5MM on Itsy. Thanks for letting me have some fun.
I was thinking of putting it in the Ancients forum, but not sure they would appreciate the humor...I ruled out the Bullion forum because........................................
