Early Latin American Silver coin

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Jimsokay
Jimsokay Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
edited September 23, 2025 6:28AM in World & Ancient Coins Forum

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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  • WildWestHalfDollars
    WildWestHalfDollars Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
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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.

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  • Colonialcoin
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    It’s a France Louis XV ecu.

  • Sapyx
    Sapyx Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 22, 2025 2:38PM
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    Definitely French. perhaps not a whole ecu, but something smaller, perhaps a half. The date seems to be 1727.

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  • Jimsokay
    Jimsokay Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
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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.

  • WildWestHalfDollars
    WildWestHalfDollars Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 22, 2025 5:00PM
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    @Early_Milled_Latin_America said:
    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.

    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.

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  • Colonialcoin
    Colonialcoin Posts: 924 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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.

  • Jimsokay
    Jimsokay Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
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    Your call was spot on!

  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Here is what it would look like .

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  • Jimsokay
    Jimsokay Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
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    Gumby1234, thank you!!!

    Now if I only knew how the family ended up with this to begin with! hahaha

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