Paging @daveydempsey Coin opinion?

@daveydempsey . What do you reckon on this? It isn't soldered in the frame, but seems in amazing condition for the supposed age.

 

Maria Theresa trade thaler, half thaler, or something thaler coin used in exchanges with Turkey and other parts of western Asia. Used in parts of the Middle East right up until WWI and I think minted for almost that long. When you see coin belts made of fake coins, the real ones used to be made of these. Dowry money. I found one here once. They were used as jewelry too. Davey can probably fill in the details and correct me where I screwed it up.

 

Thanks both - twenty quid, so I thought not bad, even if all I do is wear it! I'll buy said magnet.

 

I have one of these, dug it up as a child metal detecting

 

The first one I ever saw was one a British gent dug up when working on his garden. Darned things went everywhere.

 

Wheeeee! That'll keep you out of trouble for a while! Someone who lived there was a detectorist?

 

Apologies for hijacking the thread - what does it mean when a coin is 'restruck'?

 

So basically an authorised reproduction or replica? Or "fake".

 

Think of them as second state or third state, like a Rembrandt engraving.

 

Oh okay. That makes sense now.