Strange Hammered Coin or token.

[HAXall 0]

I have found this coin or token in little collection of portugal cob coins.it looks like hammered silver plated copper or low content silver...it is 27 mm.

what can it be?

[HAXall 0]

[TomGoodheart 403]

My guess is that it's Spanish. A billon coin of Castile & Leon, probably Henry IV (Enrique) though the name is difficult to make out. At 27mm maybe a Cuartillo?

Cuartillo

The star to the left of the bust may signify the Cuenca mint. Like this ...Maybe!

Edited November 8, 2012 by TomGoodheart

[scott 144]

yes that is spanish, seen a couple on ebay recently

being with the bunch of coins you said, then it fits.

[HAXall 0]

Thank You for your help, i was wondering - what is t made from?

is it valuable?

[TomGoodheart 403]

Thank You for your help, i was wondering - what is t made from?

is it valuable?

Billon is largely copper I believe, with a small amount of silver either mixed in or as a wash. I understand a Cuartillo is a quarter of a Real, so quite a small denomination, maybe equivalent to twopence?

Value? Not my area I'm afraid, but a search showed a few similar on ebay and the following auction results: mcsearch

so my guess is that, unless the mint or variety are scarce, then in this condition, not so much. You might be lucky though and get £20 on ebay? An interesting find though ...

[HAXall 0]

So i think it is worth to keep it!Thank You Very much for Your Help!

[Peterkin 0]

So i think it is worth to keep it!Thank You Very much for Your Help!

Yes. Definitely a keeper, even although the condition's not up to much. You have a whole load of history, right there with that coin. Enrique IV was nicknamed "the impotent", but if you go back to about his great grandfather I suppose - Pedro The Cruel, you find that he was, shall we say ... a bit of a swordsman. Even if you look up Cuenca, the name of the place where it was minted - you find that there was "the old mint" which did hammered coins, but then there was "the new mint" which did milled coins.

[Cyril22 0]

Wow! i am very happy to find this. This is very helpful.

[Cyril22 0]

what a nice wroking... that's gr888..

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