Have a new favorite - one that should appeal to Colonial and civil war period collectors (updated).
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QDB offered several CWT's that he bought from the Tanenbaum estate recently.
Couldn't pass on this one as it has appeal on several levels - coins that circulated in early America, Civil War era coinage and a personal favorite - CWT's struck over other coins.
Plus, I simply like the obverse design - this CWT (NY-630-BO-2fo) was struck over a Mexican 1 reale.
Update
I've been looking hard at the undertype of the CWT and I can make out 1R and the left upright of a "M" for the mintmark. Initials FF. I'm pretty sure it's Carolus III. That's about as far as I can take it so far - no remnant of the date.
So, it's somewhere between 1778-85, 1787-88.
Couldn't pass on this one as it has appeal on several levels - coins that circulated in early America, Civil War era coinage and a personal favorite - CWT's struck over other coins.
Plus, I simply like the obverse design - this CWT (NY-630-BO-2fo) was struck over a Mexican 1 reale.
Update
I've been looking hard at the undertype of the CWT and I can make out 1R and the left upright of a "M" for the mintmark. Initials FF. I'm pretty sure it's Carolus III. That's about as far as I can take it so far - no remnant of the date.
So, it's somewhere between 1778-85, 1787-88.
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Congratulations on a great pickup.
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<< <i>Very nice! What I like most is that it was struck over a 2 reales coin. >>
Ditto! That's a very cool coin!
Can you read the date on the understrike?
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Nope - sometime from 1772-1825 is the best QDB and I could come up with - some lettering of the obverse can be made out but the date of the under-type is gone.
I'm not sure why you would say that it would appeal to colonial period collectors
It's the "coins that circulated in early America" thing - even if not a true US colonial coin.
Nope - silver.
The pillar at the top sorta looks like a cannon.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
<< <i>Very neat token. I can see why it would appeal to Civil War period collectors but I'm not sure why you would say that it would appeal to colonial period collectors. Can the 2 reale coin that it was struck over be identified as being from the colonial era? Actually, this token would appeal to anyone that likes history or coins.
I can see CAROLUS from the undertype on the obverse of the token, so it's on a Charles III or Charles IV 2-reales. Which is close enough, when it comes to being a colonial era tie-in. I can't see the Mexico City mintmark, though, so do we know for sure the host coin was Mexican and not from one of the other Spanish colonies?