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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1959631, member: 112&quot;]It&#039;s possible it is but that doesn&#039;t look like salt water damage to me. Looks more like a ground find - a coin dug up out of the ground. And yes it is from Spain, not Spanish colonial. And while it is possible that some Spanish coins did manage to circulate here in the colonies, the Spanish themselves did everything they could to prevent that from happening. </p><p><br /></p><p>And it wasn&#039;t just the Spanish who did that, most countries did. And they didn&#039;t just do it in North America, they did it in all colonies. Many countries took extraordinary measures to stop native currency from leaving their shores. They would even force the crews of their ships to cash in all the coins they had in their possession and replace those coins with the coins that were in use in the countries they were traveling to. This was often done because the other coins were often debased from what the native source country coinage was. Spain&#039;s wasn&#039;t debased, at least not intentionally by the Crown, but many other country&#039;s coins were.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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