Please Help Me Id This Coin?!?!?!?

kingmatt

I just picked this up today and thought it would be a great puzzler for you guys and gals. Can anyone ID this coin?

KlectorKid

Its a very old coin from the dunch mint of Colombo. good condition too. link

KlectorKid

sorry i cant give more info there is not much writen about these coins.

KlectorKid

DMWJR

uh . . . that must be the ultra rare "One-quarter Quarter" aka five cents struck by the midnight minters in 1913. Notice the similarities to the "V" nickel. Rumor has it that after they struck the five 1913 nickels, they took a fast boat down to Bogota and snuck into the Bogus . . . uh . . . I mean Bogota Royal Mint in the middle of the night where these pieces were clandestinely struck. I think it weighs about one kilo, if I'm not mistaken.

kingmatt

Not quite a key... more like the weight of a nickel. You get an "A" for trying though...

Conder101

I don't have the proper books with me but it looks like a 1 duit struck by the Dutch East India company (VOC, these are the initials for the dutch words for the name of the company.) The company had been granted to right to coin money for their possessions and they are pretty common.

cdmead

What Conder said is correct.

And thank you for bringing the scholarly rationality of the Darkside to the US forum. I hear heads popping all across the board.