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Gold 60 gram medallion 16th century

Melior_InvenidisteMelior_Invenidiste Posts: 123 ✭✭
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Need help identifying

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  • Melior_InvenidisteMelior_Invenidiste Posts: 123 ✭✭

    But I still can’t figure out what the numbers mean. It almost looks like a compass rose.

  • Melior_InvenidisteMelior_Invenidiste Posts: 123 ✭✭

    So it may seem impossible but, yet possible. The Magellan



    cloud of stars actually correspond to the numbers on the coin, how navigation was carried out. I can’t find anything about 59, or Anna and 70, but they do correspond to stars named in Magellan’s time and used for navigation.

  • Melior_InvenidisteMelior_Invenidiste Posts: 123 ✭✭

    Just so you know this is what an astrolabe looks like. A compass of that time used to navigate by the stars

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like a Mardi Gras doubloon.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • tcollectstcollects Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭✭✭

    it has a rich chocolaty center

  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,373 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sure looks like a modern, non-gold piece to me.

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