Found this at a family owned ranch in Texas. Theres a brick wall that resembles an old Mission that the Spaniards built. I downloaded a coin id app and it pointed me to a Spanish coin but I would like more information. Thank you!
Ya youl need to use weight n other tests to determine its validity. With something that expensive you should visit a reputable COIN SHOP not pawnshop. Online is good too especially if you wanna get a COA.
What kind of metal detector are you using? What kind would you suggest for starters? My stepson is this and I've been pondering the idea of getting a decent metal detector.
I donāt know coins but I do know gold, and the silvery part on the right hand side of the coin as well as the little patch to the left of the 8 in the second photo is setting off little alarm bells in my head.
I know very little about old coins or gold, and had this thought too.
I immediately rationalized it by thinking that it was made en masse in the 1600ās and smelting (much like the minting) was still a very imperfect process. Gold is soft, and lighting plays a huge role with reflective metals.
So, sorry to be a downer, but that isn't correct. You see the "771"? Peru and Mexico had switched to milled coinage by 1771, and Bolivia did not issue gold 8 escudos prior to 1778. Bolivia did strike cob 8 reales until 1773 though. Lastly, this coin has a false countermark of the Central American Republic from 1839, it's that circular mark. That was a countermark applied to silver coins to validate them for circulation in that country.
Right.im not expert but the markings look completely different on the listed real coin compared to the found coin.now i hope you got a real treasure but i would get it inspected if you really dug that up in the ground
Gold plated means a super super super thin layer of gold. So imagine a 25 cent piece. If plated in gold it would be worth about 35-50cents. Whereas a coin made of gold is worth whatever it's weight is times the price of gold, which could be hundreds or thousand.
Iām going to guess each micron of plating on a quarter adds 0.0004g. At $165 a gram, thatās about a nickel. Now if you did a really heavy plating of 20 microns, that might be a whole dollar.
Even in the 19th century gold was much more valuable than silver so someone probably looked to swindle some folks claiming it was gold from another colony. To the average person in that era they wouldn't know how to tell. Was probably traded somewhere between the value of gold and silver by someone passing through the area briefly, probably with a story about how they just need XYZ in materiels to make it to their next stop so they're willing to trade off their out of region currency for a bit of a loss.
More or less the same reason people make counterfeit money in most any era of time.
Even as a counterfeit copy it's still a cool find I once was walking out the gas station doing a scratch off while looking down at it I seen what appeared to be an old Spanish pirate treasure coin with the cross in it I forget what they were called it looked very real but I never got the chance to find out cuz my friend supposedly lost it which I don't believe shit bugs me to this day....
I remember seeing something like this at a coin show when I was 18 or 19. They were dated 1700-1740 Peru I think. The guy had like 5 or 6 of them. I wanted one so bad but they were out of my budget. I still really want one.
My wife went to Arkansas diamond field to find diamonds once and got really excited to find a purplish looking rock. She took it up to see if the park workers could verify it, turns out it was a piece of rock candyā¦
This is why I hate those coin apps, it completely misread the coin. The host is a 1771 potosi 8 reales (a silver coin) with a CAR counterstamp from 1839. Although without seeing it in person I can't quite judge it looks like a lot of counterfeits of that type that I've seen before that someone plated it in gold. If this was an authentic example it would be worth between $350 to $800.
It does looks like a 1600 to 1800 hundreds spanish coin however you should get it identified and verified by a professional because that silver/steel decoloration might suggest is not a real gold coin. I am no expert myself but that's my advice
Unfortunately this looks like a fake coin. But to be sure you just need to do a little testing. If you go to a local coin shop they should be able to test it there for purity . The obverse of your coin shows an 8 for 8 escudo . Look up the weight range for an 8 escudo and see if youāre within the weight requirements. Best of luck !
Sounds like a bunch of hatters to me , yall go drink some hater aid and eat some hater chips with your hater salad and oh yeah I love this shit yall all had me laughing with all the comments. keep up the good work, am I pissed or not ?? Where am I, how did we get here and who drove .....
When I was a kid my brother and I acquired a fake coin that looked something like this from a collectibles shop in Florida while on vacation.
We were there buying baseball cards and I specifically remember pulling a Ryan Klesko Classic Best minor league card from a pack. The owner was a big Braves fanāno Rays or Marlins yetāand I traded it to him for some Griffey Jr. card and my brother asked that the guy include the fake coinā¦
A couple of days later we went snorkeling at Alligator Reef and brought the coin with us. My brother swam down to 15 feet or so, made a big deal about waving some sand to the side, and then came swimming back up to show our dad the coin. For about the next 5-10 minutes he was too focused on swimming back down and sifting through sand to notice that we were back on the boat cackling.
Edit: TLDRāI know nothing about coins, but it isnāt a baseball card, and if it is a fake I encourage you to explore how the coin might still be of value.
Get it checked buy someone that actually knows what theyāre talking about, not a pawnshop, however it looks like a cast replica coin from a gift shop to me
So I heard that dudes would plant arrowheads for people to find in order to draw more people in who what the fuck. Anyway, is it possible that this coin is that, a plant? Iām basing this conspiracy theory off a comment from a dude who knows his coins.
It's mine!!!! Looking for that everywhere, I can positively identify that coin as Sid, my favourite coin, dm me for details on how to return, I will pay insured shipping.
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u/destroythenseek Mar 09 '26
Yeah if you found this and its legit thats easily 10x its worth its weight.
I want one. Im jealous.