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Message:: [QUOTE="RayCanada, post: 80699, member: 4271"]Hi Syvester, I do think a lot of Elizabeth I coins are around, the only one's I think are probably a lot more rare are the milled ones. When I see these coins come up though with that marking it does cause me to be somewhat perplexed.  Chopmarks I'm not sure about as the time period does not quite make sense and late in the Riegn of Elizabeth there was coinage made for the east india trade, but I guess some of the regular coinage could have made it over. Banking marks I'm unsure of, as I think the Bank Of England was formed in 1803 but my memory might be wrong on that, if the date is right though I doubt an Elizabeth six pence would last in circulation that long. I'm aware that some english hammered from the Tudor's and other House's did survive until the re-coinage under Charles II I believe. In the end it's an interesting puzzle as some friends think it's a pewter reproduction/copy I'm just plain unsure LoL. The one other feature that I'm not sure about beyond the markings beside the coat of arms on the upper left hand side, is that the coin appears thicker than normal, the bulge on the obverse edge makes me think that. Please keep in mind I'm trying to learn here, so I'm playing devils advocate but I have seen about four coins of this type come up over the past year all identified as something different.[/QUOTE]