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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;christopher52, post: 515043, member: 17188&quot;]Morning - I&#039;m a newbie, but an interested one. Back in the 60&#039;s, my brother was a sports diver primarily off the Florida coast. In the late 60&#039;s early 70&#039;s, he gave me two coin fragments, a musket ball and a nail, that he retrieved from one of his dives. i am using time dates for reference.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I recently had a jeweler place a bale on these fragments so that I could return them to my brother as a momento of his youth. However, the jeweler cautioned me - saying they contained lead!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve gone on plenty of websites trying to identify these coins and spoken to many how can not or are not familar. these coins show the typical &quot;cob&quot; designs - but the years of 1773 &amp; 1730 are not reseachable. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One person called these fragments &quot;klippe&quot;. But -I doubt if they were square in their original form.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Can anyone assist me with identiying these coins as authentic. I tried to attach photos?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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