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Message:: [QUOTE="swhuck, post: 1197786, member: 21044"]What I know: <ul> <li>This is not an 1101-dated coin. Anything minted during that time-frame would have been much more crude.</li> <li>If I read it correctly, the legend says, "Un Peso Sagrado Verdadero", which is Spanish for "One Sacred, True Peso".</li> </ul>What I suspect: <ul> <li>This probably isn't a coin at all; it is more likely a token. It's also possible that it could be a weight (peso literally means weight).</li> <li>This piece was probably minted during the last half of the 20th century, judging by the artistic style.</li> <li>I see nothing in the single image to lead me to believe that it is Philippine. It's far more likely that a coin minted in the Philippines during that time period would have legends in Tagalog; Spanish fell out of use there rather quickly after the US took over.</li> </ul>We'd really need to see an image of the other side to get a better idea of what it is, and if the images were larger, that would help. Also, what size is this piece?[/QUOTE]