Can't find this coin in the database!???

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I can't find this golden coin in any coin database at all. Can anyone tell me something about this COIN?




Citeer: lapislazuliI can't find this golden coin in any coin database at all. Can anyone tell me something about this COIN?




Looks to me like a medal. The text says something about the church of christ and a womans head... I think
The obverse is Mary Stuart the wife of William of Orange who claimed the English throne through Mary.

The latin inscription reads "The husband is head of the wife, as Christ is head of the Church" which is pretty much summing up William's somewhat flimsy claim to the crown.

The Jacobites (Stuart partisans) didn't buy it and promptly invaded, twice. Unfortunately we lost, twice.
Non illegitimis carborundum est.  Excellent advice for all coins.
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Aye we did lose "/
Still part of our great history and we now have cool 2 headed coins as you can see..

I have just won a James II "gun money" shilling actually that will be next months "coin of the month" lol
Thanks, now it is more clear to me.
But I still have questions. Has the coin more than gold value? What is the gold carat in this coin?
Citeer: lapislazuliThanks, now it is more clear to me.
But I still have questions. Has the coin more than gold value? What is the gold carat in this coin?
My guess is it contains no gold at all, but that's easily checked with a density test like this:
https://en.numista.com/numisdoc/measure-a-coin-s-density-27.html
Silver is 10.5g/cm^3, lead is 11.34, pure gold 19.32. A density above that of lead pretty much means it contains some gold or other heavy PM, unless it's made of a tungsten alloy... uhm maybe I just confused you with this?

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