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YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Can anybody tell me what I have here?
I’ve seen this version of a cross before on coinage but the flip side stumps me. Any ideas?
If so, how do I tell if it’s real?

Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.

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  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 27, 2021 1:03PM

    Gold cob (2E?) mounted in a pendant. Very common to do with shipwreck pieces as there wasn't enough demand otherwise.

    Maybe a cob expert can ID it better.

    Its highest and best use is probably that pendant, so best to leave it alone.

    Edited to add: If I had to guess, I'd say it's real.

  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pruebas said:
    Gold cob (2E?) mounted in a pendant. Very common to do with shipwreck pieces as there wasn't enough demand otherwise.

    Maybe a cob expert can ID it better.

    Its highest and best use is probably that pendant, so best to leave it alone.

    Edited to add: If I had to guess, I'd say it's real.

    Thanks.
    I thought it looked like a cob, but the orientation of the shield threw me. I’ve only seen the photo so far.
    Jeweler friend scanned it as 75% gold so it must be fake or his machine is off .
    Wear wouldn’t take a .925 coin down to .75….

    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,703 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Where are you getting 92.5% ?

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  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,582 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The coat-of-arms on the reverse looks like Charles II.

  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,582 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://historicalcoin.com/spanish-gold-2-escudos-gold-cob

  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MsMorrisine said:
    Where are you getting 92.5% ?

    Weren’t they .925% gold?

    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 27, 2021 2:10PM

    I believe 0.9167 (aka 22K) purity.

    No idea about why the discrepancy though.

    I'm stating the obvious, but did you check with a magnet?
    Did the jeweler check the purity of the mounting? Is the mounting marked?

    EDITED TO ADD: I can see the mounting being 0.75 (18K) gold. Could he have somehow checked that?

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