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Metal Detecting Discussions => Beat the Doc... Identify your finds here => Topic started by: alun on February 10, 2014, 07:07:00 PM



Title: Identification if possible
Post by: alun on February 10, 2014, 07:07:00 PM
Be great if you can identify this one. I thought it was a silver 3pence at first.


Title: Re: Identification if possible
Post by: Mike on February 10, 2014, 07:08:59 PM
german I think or maybe French


Title: Re: Identification if possible
Post by: diggaduff on February 10, 2014, 07:13:04 PM
Nice looking coin, well found :)


Title: Re: Identification if possible
Post by: Chef Geoff on February 10, 2014, 07:13:36 PM
Very nice it's a Schilling (or fraction) from Swedish Livonia, mint Riga, modern day Latvia ;)
Have you got a pic of the other side?


Title: Re: Identification if possible
Post by: alun on February 10, 2014, 07:46:10 PM
Obverse


Title: Re: Identification if possible
Post by: Chef Geoff on February 10, 2014, 07:52:04 PM
Lovely...only one change in that it's a Solidus issued under Carl Gustav 1655-1660


Title: Re: Identification if possible
Post by: alun on February 10, 2014, 07:55:01 PM
Thanks Geoff, how the hell you do it baffles me, but full respect thanks.


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