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What good timing! We're going through my grandma's house and found this just now. Well, my family did, I'm not there at the moment, so I can't get a better picture:   From a bit of research it looks like a 1772 Carolus III 1/2 reale piece (the R) I'm confused at what I'm thinking is the mint mark, though, G P, since this site http://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins?main_coin=2334 says that G is Guatemala and P is Colombia Any comments or evaluation welcome, looks like it's maybe $30-50 on ebay. Very cool!
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Thanks for that! This is an album of the coin collection we found, mostly belonging to my great-great grandfather. No need to ID everything, I can look up stuff on ebay fine myself  Just posting for interest and if there's anything in particular that jumps out:http://imgur.com/a/ZZeWS the 'crown jewel'  very pretty Morgan (pics don't do it justice)  These I could use some help with, if anyone can ID:  
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Jun 27, 2017 21:31
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Huh, cool. They're some neat family history even if they're not real, and I wasn't expecting big ticket going by the rest of the collection (the gold piece excepted) Thanks
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Jun 29, 2017 23:19
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Finishing up the small pile we found in my grandma's attic, and these two came up with a question. They're both in very nice shape (check out that copper color!)(click for huge):  The date fonts being different struck me immediately, though. There's also small differences in the front image, and the curve of the text on the reverse - particularly around the 'OF', or the last 'A' in America. 'Half Cent' is not quite aligned flat, but that's consistent on both of them. Is one a potential counterfeit, or just 1830s printing irregularities? This is also pretty neat:   That's an 1856 Campaign token from the first ever Republican presidential candidate, who lost to Buchanan. Was a popular western explorer. Jessie was his wife, who was very well known herself apparently. I can't find this exact picture on ebay--might be worth a few hundred? A decent amount of these tokens from the 1800s are.
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