Could the group help with theses coins.2 of the old ones are very thick, the other is thin.Thanks Jordan 8 years old
I might well be very wrong here but the 2 on the left of the screen look Indian (Early) to me, I have a few very similar that I know are Mughal era and they just seem it :whistle: . As I say proberly totaly wrong De Orc :kewl: :whistle:
I can tell you one thing,as a person who speaks some German,spielgeld means play money...probably game token money.
The one at the right is either a valuable Austrian gold ducat, or (statistically much more probably) a worthless Readers Digest giveaway. Check out this earlier thread
The lower left one looks like an Islamic 1/2 Dirhem from the Mamluk period in Egypt. Here are three examples I have. Bone
aacoins - The answer you received in this thread - CLICK HERE is not going to change. I firmly believe that coin is a Reader's Digest replica. But if you really want to know for sure, have your dad take you and the coin to a jewelry store and have the coin weighed. That will provide you with a definitive answer. If the coin is genuine it will weigh 3.5 grams. Anything else and it is what I said it was.
I had forgotten about the earlier thread, which included a much larger picture of the Readers Digest token. Based on that picture I'm with GDJMSP, and there's no doubt in my mind that it is neither gold nor Austrian.
any time you have a known coin type, simply weighing it would give youa definative yes/no answer. I had a similar problem a while back; I wanted to know if it was real gold or not, but the problem was I had no idea what it was, so I was reduced to a density test (find out how much volume it has, and then weigh it). Alas, it was brass. Usually, just comparing the weight, dimensions, and imagery are often all you need.
I disagree. Weight and/or diameter can conclusively establish that something is a fake, but can never be conclusive that it is genuine. For example, there were 29 genuine 1877 Japanese ¥20 gold coins struck. They are valued at well over $100,000 by both Krause and the JNDA. As a result of the huge disparity between numismatic and bullion value there have been far more than 29 fakes produced over the last 125 years or so, each weighing 33.33g and crafted from .900 gold.
