Found this cleaning house, can anyone help me with what type of coin it is? It does not appear to be a US coin. edited
I've updated my initial post with a Numista link. However, in terms of value, I cannot give you any specific answers.
I lived in Germany for 6 years and had a small garden out back. Digging in the soil these used to pop up usually in worse shape so unless someone knows something different I would think value would be around $10.00-$15.00 average
ok the ones I found were bronze. so yours would be higher perhaps $20-$30.00 of course this is a ballpark figure.
Nice work on the Numista lookup, @Bradley Trotter. @Chris Winkler- it catalogs $30 in VF20, but your example is nowhere near that grade. It’s more like G6 to VG8. As such, it’s worth less than ten bucks as-is. Still an extremely cool find. You should clean house more often!
At .368 fine (36.8% silver), this is barely a silver coin, and more copper than silver- hence the darker color. Technically, debased silver with fineness this low is more billon than silver. But it does have a trace of silver in it. (About a third.)
