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<p>[QUOTE="Kiera Wolf, post: 60563, member: 3645"]Hello, I'm Kiera... a few weeks ago we were looking trough my greatgrandmother possesions which included a wood box filled with coins. As I went trough it I found two coins wich I could not identify:</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin #1:</p><p><br /></p><p>Appers to be brittish, its silvery in color. I looked up the legend that reads "VICTORIA DEI GRATIA BRITANNIA REG FD." and there is a a face of a woman. On the other side of the coin if I remember correctly the legend that reads is "PRINCE OF WALES HAI SOVN" or something really similar to that (sorry, I don't have the coin with me right now); on that side it appears a crown like figure, with what appears to be a cross at the top, in the center of the crown there are three enlongated curved shapes (try to think in a bean form or kind of a deformed rain drop). Yet I can't find any year on it nor any other sort of number...</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this an actual coin or just some random token?</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin #2:</p><p><br /></p><p>I managed to read up "1/4 the Real Peso" (mexican pesos), yet the year it belongs to it either erased or hidden under a lot of dirt, could someone help me on how to pinpoint the year it was made. The coins appears to be cooper, and for what I found out in my National Bank it could be from 1788 to 1821</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you very much, Kiera[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kiera Wolf, post: 60563, member: 3645"]Hello, I'm Kiera... a few weeks ago we were looking trough my greatgrandmother possesions which included a wood box filled with coins. As I went trough it I found two coins wich I could not identify: Coin #1: Appers to be brittish, its silvery in color. I looked up the legend that reads "VICTORIA DEI GRATIA BRITANNIA REG FD." and there is a a face of a woman. On the other side of the coin if I remember correctly the legend that reads is "PRINCE OF WALES HAI SOVN" or something really similar to that (sorry, I don't have the coin with me right now); on that side it appears a crown like figure, with what appears to be a cross at the top, in the center of the crown there are three enlongated curved shapes (try to think in a bean form or kind of a deformed rain drop). Yet I can't find any year on it nor any other sort of number... Is this an actual coin or just some random token? Coin #2: I managed to read up "1/4 the Real Peso" (mexican pesos), yet the year it belongs to it either erased or hidden under a lot of dirt, could someone help me on how to pinpoint the year it was made. The coins appears to be cooper, and for what I found out in my National Bank it could be from 1788 to 1821 Thank you very much, Kiera[/QUOTE]
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