French coin date 1752 advice please

Hi,

this is my first forray into the world of coins.

I found many years ago, in France a coin of the following description,

it is a shiny silver, but only the size of a today's penny (I am in the UK), but it is not a perfect round shape.

It has a picture of a woman? (it could be a man in a wig) on the front and the words around the outside which say FRANC.D.G.R.I.S. A.GER.I E R.REX

On the reverse it has an elaborate crest with the words around the outside MEA 1752 TU.DOMINE SPES (where the 1 looks as though it is back-to-front).


Could you please let me know what I have, and whether it is worth anything?

Many thanks,
Juliette

 

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Smells like a fake ducat to me.

Sounds alot like the one i have, but mine is dateless.

 

It might also be that it is not silver, but platnum - I heard talk here before that the ducat was also counterfeited in platnum, which was far less valuable at the time. Could that also be the case here?


later note: sorry, I didn't see the date here. My first comment was made in relation to a 19 or 20th century counterfeit example. It probably does not apply here.

 

Juliette

Thank you for your replies, I have found them fascinating and am now off to weigh, test magnetically and return (possibly with photograph if I can work out how to include this in this format). I sadly suspect that mine is a fake, wondering though how it might have ended up in a phone box in France! I am a little confused as I found mine (I am sure) more than the twelve years ago (when the Readers Digest producing their Ducat funny money)....I'm sure I did!?
Anyway, thanks again, it's perhaps something I'll leave to my kids and then be worth something, as is said in one comment, just for its own story!

 

Juliette

Aha,

And so the plot thickens - from my rather dodgy scales my coin seems to weigh only 2 grammes however, it is not magnetic!?! So right now I am very confused and hoping (rather optimistically I appreciate) that it is a platinum version? My knowledge even fails me here however, as this might indeed mean that my coin should be heavier?

Unfortunately, though my camera batteries are now on charge! I will endeavour to photograph the coin and put this on another posting.

Could you please advise where I might take the coin, I'm not sure who would know more about this and where I might get an 'honest' answer (pehaps I should be neither skeptical nor optimistic at this stage?)

Just one further question, I am in the UK - where are other people posting from?

Thanks

 

franc.d.g.r.i.s. a.ger.i rex

Hello there, this is my first intervention in a forum of any kind. I was looking for imformation about this same coin that my mother in law gave me. I even have the photo of both sides of it (hopefully I'll be able to display it!!). Anyway, main seems to be very golden

 

the photo, I made it!!

Here it is, I though it was way more difficult!!

 

Lauramilla,welcome aboard.That is not a coin,but one of those fantasies that were given away by Reader's Digest over 20 years ago.

Aidan.

 

how can you be that sure about it? please tell me more about it, it's a fantastic story!!

 

Previous posters have asked this question.You can find the answers above.

Aidan.

 

I have a coin similar to these images. Yet it is not magnetic & the detail is much more defined !. Weight is between 2 & 3g. The edge is smooth (no serrations). Best way to describe it's look/condition/quality is that of a dirty old silver sixpence (UK).

Thoughts ?....

 

Here you go.....

 

And the other side....

 

Ok...how about this one, gold/yellow colour (image taken under a flourescent tube)...a coin collecting friend started a sweat when he saw this one, but we could not get a value as there is no date ??

 

And the other side...