Hi, we have a coin 1774, BRITA NIA, on the other side is GEORGIUS III REX, and picture of funny looking guy with a big nose. Anyone know anything about this coin?
How about some pictures of the coin? It will tell us more infomation of the grade of the coin. If I am not mistaken, it is a British coin, but I am not too sure of the denomination. Others will tell you what exactly it could be.
Actually, I found it to be a 1736 spanish 8 reale cob. I'm new at this so I don't know how to find the worth other than comparisons on e-bay. Any suggestions?
I'd be very interested in seeing your basis for that conclusion. The word "Brittania" historically appeared on British coinage, not Spanish, since it is the name of the mythical Goddess representative of the nation. George III was the mad King of England in whose reign the "trouble in the colonies" led to the establishment of the United States. There is no historical evidence that Spain ever had a ruler named "George", let alone three of them. If it is ~23mm in diameter, your description fits KM#602, a copper farthing of Great Britain, valued at $10 F to $185 Unc. in the 2001 18th Century Standard Catalog of World Coins, which mentions that there were many contemporary counterfeits. If it is ~30mm wide, your description fits KM#601, a copper half-penny, $15-285. The only Spanish 1736 8 Reales listed in the SCWC (KM#358) is not a cob, has a shield on the obverse with a coat of arms on the reverse and has a "Philippus" (Philip V - 1700-1746) legend BTW to CoinTalk.
HI ROY I see in a lot of your post km#--- I do not own a krause catalogues but is that what you are referring to ? Is that were you will find that coin in the caralogues sorry for the stupid question just don't no a lot about foreign coins.
Best suggestion would be to post a picture of the coin - then we could help you. Until then we are only guessing. Meanwhile, this is what a 8 reales from the period looks like. Is that what your coin looks like ? If it doesn't, then it isn't what you think it is.
Exactly. The Krause catalogs use the Yeoman (Y#) and Craig (C#) numbers for coins that have them, and assign their own KM#s to the rest of the world's coinage, including US coins, such as KM#110 - the Morgan dollars that so many forum members are hung up on.
lol, this is a little how i felt at the big coin show this weekend. I don't dislike the Morgan dollar, but nearly every dealer had stacks of them, all over the place! They were inwscapable, i just kept thinking that finding what I was looking for would be much easier if I didn't have to wade through mounds of Morgans to find it!
