This is a pretty cool history the mother of my grandmother lived in italy in a little town far far away from civilitation she found a coin under the house floor while she was rebuilding her house around the 60' when my grandmother return to italy her mother give her this coin because it was pretty and believed or not she found last night a little box and inside was this coin... http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00516rj2.jpg http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00524im5.jpg I have been doing some research and i found out that they are a lots of copies of this coin but can you tell if the original is made of gold or silver im not sure is mines is original. What do you think?? I dont have intension of selling this coin because its like a family thing but i will also like to know the value of the original coin just curious can anybody tell me if i should use alcohol or other sustance for cleaning?
Its not an Austrian Ducat. This seems to be a silver? copy of a Ducat from the reign of the Emperor Francis I (wife of...I mean husband to Maria Theresa ) pictured below is a real ducat of this ruler: I think you have a copy of the above coin
It looks like your coin might be a promotional piece that was given away by Reader's Digest some years ago. Scroll down about 4/5 of the way to the bottom of the following web site, to "1752 Austrian Ducat-- Funny Money" http://www.vision.net.au/~pwood/April2002.htm
Its a real bad fake, I would say its worth nothing, biggest hint that it isnt real would be that it looks nothing like the real thing...among other glaring hints
you have to upload it to a website before you can post it, it must be online to link into the forum. Once the picture has a URL then you post it as I have mentioned above.
he are the pics of my ducat http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00270os1.jpg http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00268it1.jpg
OK - now scroll down to post #3 and compare yours to the genuine coin. You'll see why we know it is a fake.
