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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7873374, member: 10461&quot;]Awesome and truly amazing find in the context, regardless of condition.&nbsp; Where’s the other side?</p><p><br /></p><p>Big silver coins don’t often turn up in the ground, as all detectorists know.&nbsp; They tended to get seen and picked back up when dropped.&nbsp; Perhaps this one fell into some mud or was otherwise obscured from rediscovery after it was lost.&nbsp; That loss would have been felt financially at the time by its owner, given the coin’s high denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree that it’s <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England" rel="nofollow">William III</a>.&nbsp; You can read the -MVS from the GULIELMVS (=“William”) in the legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the amount of wear on it, I’d imagine it was lost in the 18th or early 19th century, after decades if not more than a century of circulation.&nbsp; Such coins circulated in America until 1857.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is its smaller cousin- a 1697 William III sixpence I briefly owned in 2013 and rather regret selling.&nbsp; These photos do it no justice.&nbsp; It was a real “lusterbomb”.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1356747[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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