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Message:: [QUOTE="murf353, post: 163614, member: 6707"]The gold colored "GEORGIVS III" coin from 1701 that no one can identify seems to be the mystery coin of the century here, as I have 8 of them. They were from my fathers coin collection. He was born in 1924, and served in WWII, which is where most of the coins he had came from, based on dates, but those 8 coins have baffeled me for years. It is true that the 1701 date is long before George III, and it was eluded to that the "0" in the date could possibly have been a "9".. but for what purpose? It seems obvious to me that George III would attract a lot more attention than the date on the obverse side. I too see the greenish patina on these coins, and I can find no one who can definitively say what they are. Stay tuned. Perhaps a letter to the History Detectives on PBS might get answered.[/QUOTE]