I am wondering what this coin is worth. Its btter quality then the pictures show. I dont know anything about it, my uncle just gave it to me a while ago and I held onto it. Once I had a paper that said it was from a shipwreck. I have no idea tho. any info about the coin is gadly appreciated! The side with the cross says something like "hispaniarvm et indiarvm rex" other side "1714 phillippvs v dei g" this is the exact coin i have, i found this pic on google images
do not alot of people just not know? cus if anyone can help i really would liketo know what kind of cash this could be worth. google is not helping me.
Welcome to CT! Please be patient. There are folks here who can probably help. Can you post photos with better focus? You may need to set your camera to what's called Macro mode, then click the camera's shoot button The Macro setting may look something like this:
thanks.and my phone doesnt do better pictures then that and i have no camera. although i found more clearer pictures of it on google images so i suggest you can do that
As a courtesy to folks in the forum, if you are aware of other photos that look exactly like your specimen, please post them. Thanks.
On the side with Philippvs on it, your cellphone photo appears to have grayish color in places around the [shown top of the] rim. Is this indeed true?
If this was indeed a solid gold coin, as the genuine Mexican cobs are of that era, would you imagine that there would be grayish areas like this around the top of a gold coin?
Absolutely. But without any additional or clearer photos of the actual specimen, all we can do undertake diagnostics step by step descriptively. Just haven't gotten that far yet The next step will be to ask him to remove the coin from the cardboard holder... (though I somewhat suspect it is not an actual cob)
