It looks kind of like a Spain Real as seen here. Off to google more. https://www.apmex.com/product/232975/spain-silver-real-discovery-of-the-new-world-presentation-set
I don't think it's a real. It's not silver and not gold. In that case it would be termed a Malavedis. Details are too mushy to pin it down from my research so far. It's bee a fun and educational search so far.
I agree. Too mushy to pin down any sort of ID with any certainty. Learned a lot researching it though. not silver OR gold. Interesting to me anyway.
This looks like a cast souvenir coin made to mimic an old spanish coin, though usually those are marked "copy" to avoid them being used for deception. Mushy detail and porous appearance are characteristics of cast coins, as is a seem running around the edge if it has not been filed off.
You got that right, it is interesting. I would wait for the more experienced to chime in. I don't have a clue, but I like it. Good luck.
This was part of an assortment of replica coins sold through museum gift shops in the late 1960's and early 1970's. I used to have several different ones in my reference collection. They came with a printed "certificate" about six inches high and two inches wide, all enclosed in a flimsy plastic sleeve. The "certificate" identified them as a reproduction, but when they were removed from the sleeve the identification was lost. Yet another reason that the Hobby Protection Act of 1973 was passed.
The obverse arms (crowned shield with qtrd. arms of Castile (castle) & Leon(lion) qtrd. and Aragon (vertical bars) & Sicily (vertical bars with 2 eagles) qtrd. with at bottom ente en point Granada (pomegranate)and the reverse (bundle of 6 arrows and yoke) are similar to various coins struck by Fernando V de Aragón & Isabel I de Castile, the Catholic Kings of Spain, in the period 1497-1504, such as the real below. The obverse legend - in Gothic script - should read something like FERNANDVS: hET: ELISABET.EI: and, from what I can see, that looks possible on your coin. However, the reverse should read something like REX: ET: REGINA: CAST: LEGIO (= Leon): ARGO: SI (cily), which, from what I can see, seems different on your coin. The lettering looks a little odd, although I am not an expert on the varieties of Gothic script. What is the diameter and what is the weight ? And, most important, does it look like silver or something else ?
