Not Santa Fe de Bogota but Nuevo Reino de Granada, JV are Juan de Chavez y Victoriano del Valle respectively, 1759 to 1760
PS I meant my great grandchildren might one day appreciate some 30, 40 or 50 yr old BU Euro coins - my Irish pennies and halfpennies went years...
I began collecting post 1860 Victorian pennies over 70 years ago as a schoolboy - they were plentiful, though not in good condition, and we all...
How on earth did you get that at a bank? Are banks now selling demonetised UK coins? If so please let me know how I can buy/bid for the coins and...
And just a small correction, the Admiral Gardner sank en route to India, which is why it was carrying a large quantity of uncirculated EIC...
Hi Daffyd I'm not sure what you mean when you say that you believe your 8 reales to "be a Mexican". It is clearly- as you say - minted in Lima in...
Not quite right. The three lions are the arms of England, the "lion in the shield" is in fact the royal arms of Scotland: Or, a lion rampant...
I don't know Brad Yonaka's work, but I find that the "Guia de las Cantidades Acuñadas, Cecas de Potosi y Lima" by Dr Glen Murray has everything...
I agree with SensibleSal, this is most likely to be a Chinese chop mark. My Spinks, when referring to the 1887 Jubilee gold £5 and £2 coins, says...
Major Fred Pridmore was the expert on British colonial coins ad tokens. http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=12718.0
The reference book that I use is Pellicer's Ensayadores - Las Emisiones Monetarias Hispanicas (Siglas XV - XXI)
In my youth, these pennies (and ha'pennies too) were known as Honolulu pennies....
In all probability, it is a florin from any place except Florence. Florins were imitated by other states in for example Savoy, in Geneva, in...
A wonderful and fascinating election token or medal. I see from the internet that Gardner was elected as the member of Parliament for Plymouth in...
Not sure how relevant this is, but I would get in touch with Glen Murray, a US citizen (born in LA in 1952) who has taken Spanish nationality. Not...
Take a look at the couple of French coins with a hole in them. If they are 25 centimes, the valuable dates are 1916, 197, 1919,1936 and 1940. If,...
According to my British Commonwealth Coins, 3rd edition, the pearl variations occur only in the 1866 Hong-Kong 10 cts, depending on whether it was...
A genuine but worn 8 reales, Carlos II, 1700, mint = Potosi
In the UK, I think this would probably be regarded as EF
That Felipe III "diner" from Bañolas (Banyoles in Catalan) is quite a rare coin, but sadly, not worth a great deal. The last one that came up for...
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