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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 873456, member: 4703&quot;]Unless your aunt is more than 440 years old, she couldn&#039;t have picked it up the year it is dated.&nbsp; In any event, age alone is no indicia of genuineness for anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the same token, the term &quot;fake&quot; is not really appropriate here.&nbsp; That term is only proper regarding an item that pretends to be something it isn&#039;t, such as a base metal copy of a genuine precious metal coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead, your item is most likely a medal commemorating something having to do with St. Joseph and some Roman event of 1570.&nbsp; (I doubt that it has anything to do with one of the most famous and dramatic Papal acts of that year - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnans_in_Excelsis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnans_in_Excelsis" rel="nofollow">the Bull published by Pope Pius V </a>excommunicating Queen Elizabeth I of England as a heretic.)</p><p><br /></p><p>It does have something to do with &quot;7 keys&quot; (translation of the Spanish legend &quot;Siete Llaves&quot; above the artwork showing seven keys), but the only &quot;seven&quot; I&#039;m familiar with as being associated with Rome are the Seven Hills of the old city.&nbsp; I&#039;ve found no connection between 7 keys and St. Joseph, except an obscure Philippine medallion with those legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, use of the denomination &quot;Un Peso&quot; is absolute proof that the item was created long after its date.&nbsp; It is generally believed that an 1817 silver coin minted in Chile was the first to bear that legend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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