Early Latin American Silver coin
Jimsokay
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This was given to me by my father many years ago. The wear is due to it being used as a teether back in the day. Of course my father, at times, was a bit of a joker. I can't make sense of it because it's so worn, but I would love to know anything someone here may be able to tell me. The photos are poor, but not as bad as the coin itself. 
. TIA!
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The design does not look Latin American (Mexico,Peru, Guatemala and the like) it looks more like a coin minted in Spain. I could be wrong lets see what others have to say. I am no expert just my gut felling based on design.
I prefer my coins in lower circulated condition G04 to F12
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It’s a France Louis XV ecu.
Definitely French. perhaps not a whole ecu, but something smaller, perhaps a half. The date seems to be 1727.
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Appreciating the feedback here!
As Colonialcoin said it does look like a a France Louis XV ecu. I just assumed Latin America.
Sapyx... I'm not sure what you mean by "perhaps not a whole ecu"? Is that in regards to diameter or is that a term I am not familiar with? BTW I should have given a rough diameter, but forgot to. It's one and a half inches across.
See I was wrong (said it could be from Spain) but was confident it was not Latin American. So it seems it is French based on what others are saying here.
I prefer my coins in lower circulated condition G04 to F12
Member here for 5 years
An ecu is basically a dollar sized coin and a 1/2 ecu is a half dollar sized coin. The 1/2 ecu is a tad bit scarcer. These coins circulated in colonial America.
Your call was spot on!
Here is what it would look like .
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Now if I only knew how the family ended up with this to begin with! hahaha