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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 900412, member: 4703&quot;]You <i>may</i> have a 1616 brass shilling issued by the Sommer Islands Company in the British Crown Colony of Bermuda.&nbsp; Scroll to the bottom of <a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/sommer_island/sommer_island_coins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/sommer_island/sommer_island_coins.htm" rel="nofollow">this page</a> to read about &quot;Hogge Money&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Listed as KM#5 in the Standard Catalog of World Coins, if genuine it should weigh 5.68g and be relatively thin.&nbsp; In the 1999 2d Edition of the catalog it was valued at G - $2,000, VG - $4,000, and F - $6,500; with no values placed on higher grades, implying that they were not known to exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly, the condition alone led me to believe that yours is a replica/copy simply because it is too good to be true.&nbsp; Then I compared the size and weight, which are both off.&nbsp; 24mm would be a correct diameter for a 6 pence, but the shilling (12 pence) is about 30mm; and there is nowhere near enough wear displayed to account for a drop of ~.3g.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is another version, with the same physical specifications, and larger sails on the ship (KM#6), which is extremely rare - only 3 known to exist - valued in the catalog at G - $4,000 and VG - $6,500.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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