Foreign Coin Feature : Spain

[Dave8472]

For today’s feature we have Spain, like other European countries they were exploring far and wide, I have a few coins from the same site as the other foreign ones, but my favourite one is a Liard of the Spanish controlled Netherlands. Charles II of Spain (1665-1700 AD). It dates somewhere between 1692 and 1695, so a nice early copper alloy coin. I’m still looking for a Spanish Cob !!!!

Most were found in Kent and even the London ones are postal Kent (PAS = Greater London) as that's where I mainly detect. A few notes on the coins and video. All the 'copper alloy' ones are colour photoshopped in order to harmonise the colour variations in photography so they are not all brown in real life. The nickel and silver coins are also 'grey scaled'. The sizes are also scaled but there is nothing unusual in any of them that need explaining . The use of YouTube was just a simple way of displaying them for the forum with the sizing and quantity limits etc, as I don't like linking off to hosting sites. I don't do YouTube so nothing to subscribe to It’s just a video dumping ground for me It is best viewed within the forum as it is only low resolution. If you spot any dating errors on the spreadsheet timeline please let me know !

Please feel free to add any Spanish (ONLY) coin finds to my post, always interested to see others

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/spain-1.html

Dave

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The YouTube isn't for 'Self Promotion' it was to purely get around the daily image quota, no need to subscribe, there's nothing else to see there

[Incognito]

Seems closer to

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces791.html

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[Dave8472]

Seems closer to

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces791.html

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Yep that’s the ones, I’ve got three of those, all in very poor condition, they did take me a while to ID those

Dave

[Incognito]

Seems closer to

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces791.html

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Yep that’s the ones, I’ve got three of those, all in very poor condition, they did take me a while to ID those

Dave

I thought you were saying that was a Liard . It's funny you find so many foreign coins in UK, maybe there is a coin magnet there ? On the continent I rarely if ever find older coins from other countries than the one I am detecting in, there must be some somewhere though, maybe border areas more ? Littleboot said she has some English coins, so maybe there was more exchange in the north of france.

[Dave8472]

The Liard was this one I recorded

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/811511

I find lots of coins on most of my sites, just to put in to context on one site I have found 482 coins of which 27 were non UK coins

These are in busy towns rather than rural areas, so lots of activity

Altogether I have 2791 of which 92 are foreign, that's excluding Jetons

Dave

[newseeker]

Kingdom of castile and leon

[Dave8472]

A nice addition to my foreign coins this morning on pasture

A Spanish Provisional Government 1 Peseta, dated 1870 made of 0.835 Silver, 23mm Dia.

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Dave

[Blackadder43]

Wow, you certainly find your share of foreign coins
I think in my lifetime i have probably found about half a dozen
Well done fella

[SColv]

Spanish coin found last year in Cumbria (new to the site)

[Julus]

Spanish Netherlands, 1576 and 1621. Same field. Hoping for more.

[Bardolph]

That 4 reales looks like a genuine 4 reales from the Potosi mint in Bolivia, except for one thing: all reales, from half a real up to 8 reales were made from silver, and your coins looks as though it might be copper or a silver and copper coin, which would be absolutely impossible from Potosi, where there was an enormous mountain with the richest veins of silver that the world has ever known.

In English we might say of something that it cost a mint. In the whole of the Spanish speaking world, people say that is costs a "Potosi".

The two letters, P P, are the initials of the two assayers responsible for controlling the weight and silver content, Pedro Narciso de Mazondo and Pedro Martin de Albizu who worked there from 1795 to 1801.

Try the spit and silver paper test for silver, it may just be unusual discolouring - I hope so!