Large Colonial Coin What Is It?

Hi,

I have this very large coin and I'd like to know what it is.

Any ideas?

 

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I do not see anything to match it in the Red Book.
Can you tell us what the writing says??
Any date??

 

It's not U.S. It's Brazil, 40 Reis. Very common, worth less than a buck.
Nick

 

YES...Thanks!

The seller thought it was colonial but I doubted it from the beginning.

My example is a COUNTERSTAMPED 40 Reis so maybe it's worth a few cents more. SEE ebay link for same coin.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...5763985&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW#ebayphotohosting

 

Yes I know it's counterstamped...they're very common. Now that I've looked on ebay I see that they sometimes sell for $4-$5. For some reason people tend to think of counterstamped coinage as being scarce but these particular coins are not. We sell them in our junk boxes in the shop and we get them in collections and piles of stuff pretty often. Sometimes we even throw them into our foreign coins by-the-pound lots just to move them out.
Nick