Very hard to identify
UrbanDecay04
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I have this coin from the 1830s yet I have no idea what it is... It's extremely hard to see what it is but I was hoping someone may recognize it.... If you know the coin, could you tell me its value?
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It's from Netherlands East Indies. Could be 1/4 or 1/2 stuiver, hard to tell. BTW, the top picture is upside down.
edited to add... 1/4 stuiver is 20.7mm in diameter, 1/2 stuiver is 25.5mm.
Maybe he's flying a distress flag...
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The coin appears to have had a rough life...
Maybe on the ground for a long time.
Starting from @MasonG's ID, looks like Sumatra:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/netherland_east_indies-2.html
Maybe the 1 Duit:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6607.html
Value - likely under a dollar.
i empathize with you @UrbanDecay04
been spending some time the past few days sorting more foreign coins. running down mandarin, arabic (and its myriad of forms), russian and so many more.
best tip i can give you is to develop a protocol, bookmark some useful sites and get some books/pdf for world coin catalogs.
once you get to pre-1800, each century you go back will just get hairier and hairier. i have always had good success posting in the world/ancient forum here at CU not that there aren't plenty of folks over here that can do just about any coin with decent images.
cam across a mexican neuevos pesos in a bucket recently and didn't recognize it but looked like a higher denom bi-metallic so i put it in my pile. couple days later look it up and see it is my first silver-center bi-metallic (that i know of because it is hard to know what you've missed) worth $10-15 which is pretty good imo for a cost of probaby .20-30 cents.
This forum is a great resource for coin information. I am amazed at how often times a coin that is barely a metallic disk, is rapidly identified by some of our experts. Well done!! Cheers, RickO