Hi, I've got two of these (this is the better of the two). I have no clue about the origins, but I'd love more info on them. Anybody recognize them? Thanks! ~Rose
Hi Rose, Retake the photo from above not at an angle, also there's no need to include the quarter. That'll make it easy to ID your coin.
Ok; thanks! I figured the quarter might be necessary to gauge size (shows how little I know! ). Here are the scans, with a bit of editing to better show details.
It's a Spanish Ardite of Philip III. http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/WorldCoinPrices.aspx?category=7557&worldcoinid=26321
Looks real for a change BTW - Philip the IIIed was a crazy man. read up on him. He may have single handedly light the match of the Protestant reformation.
As I know, Philippus III wasn't crazy. He was a weak and worthless ruler but not madman. But his grandson Carolus III was mad certainly.
No? He didn't send the Duke of Alva to Antwerp and effective kill off the entire population while simutanously hiring Ruebens and Van Dyke to paint huge nude men and women flocking around idealistic classical landscape? He was a nut, and his son, was even more nuts.
I love the internet, where we argue world history with people from every continent and background. Eugene is a Royalist.
... good to know. Aside from not being able to figure out why (except, perhaps, in the case of medieval coins)... are there any tell-tale signs which indicate that coins have been counterfeited?
