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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2359010, member: 72790&quot;]Virtually any country&#039;s coinage was acceptable, some of it even US legal tender until 1857. From its weight relative to size it may be billon rather than coin silver and from what little design is left I think possibly a billon piece of the one of the German states, including Austria). I do not think it a hammered piece but one made from a screw press, typical of 18th century coinage. If it was found in what were once&nbsp; the Middle Colonies (NY,NY, PA, DE, maybe MD) the chance of it being one of the German states is quite possible from the large number of German immigrants to that region in the 1700&#039;s and of course the German troops brought over by the British during the Revolution.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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