I.D. help 200-ish year old foreign coin
MarMarGA
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Hi everybody ! This is my first post here since registering a few weeks ago.
I've been digging into the 2020 coins of the world book, and working with the phone app called "coin snap" and now I've got one that I just can't identify. ( mostly because I can't read the foreign letters or numbers if any that are part of the inscription on this coin.)
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CoinSnap gave me three different identifications when I used it three times in a row on this coin. And two of those ID's said it was Spanish and one said Portuguese, but when I compared the sample images on their app (and other places on the Internet) for the coin they claimed it was, it is certainly not a match to any of those .
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It looks like a modern imitation of a coin of Spain under Ferdinand and Isabella.
Here is one like it:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia150707.html
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So.... it's a "token" rather than a real coin? Wow I wouldn't have suspected that even though this "coin collection" I inherited does include a couple of tokens from Las Vegas casinos from the 1960s, a Missouri tax token, and a couple of private Civil War era merchant-issued tokens.
Correct; though I wouldn;t classify it as a "token". It's a replica of a "Reyes Catolicos" silver real of Ferdinand and Isabella, from around the time of Columbus. The replica, of course, is fromt he mid-20th century. It isn't silver, and the Latin text is garbled to the point of being unreadable. I think they were made for more than just the medicine promotional set mentioned on Numista, as they seem to turn up an awful lot on the forums; I believe Readers Digest or some similar organization may also have distributed them as part of a book promotion. They must be one of the most confusion-causing replicas in existence, just for the sheer number of them out there in the hands of non-collectors and new collectors.
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This, and a British Spanish Armada anniversary set. This cartoonish tribute coin and another, better imitation of a Toledo 1R ran in the same circles: