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Holla una vez mas,amigo Pedro!
I'll start my reply by a thanks to you for opening your new & own topic,like I told you yesterday to do! This was the correct way to act.
Then,I should like to know from what (latin-American) country are you? This because I am curious to see which are the ties between you and your coins... Such ties surely exist!
Pedro,I have good news for you: After a HARD search,I succeed to completely identify your coins. A real headache gave me the tricky puzzled way in which the years of minting of the coins are written on them. Not the usual way,for sure!
Well,Pedro,you have 3 silver coins of the Province of Caracas,minted there in the first 2 decades of the 19th.century,during the war of independence of Venezuela,led by gen. Sim贸n Bolivar ''El Libertador''. Both armed forces in that conflict,royalists & republicans,minted these coins. All 3 are of 2 reales denomination and of the ''cob'' type (largely minted in all Spanish colonies of the Americas,in the previous 2 centuries). ''Cob'' coins have,as yours,irregular shapes( that is normal).
But only these venezuelan coins have also a weight which varies from a coin to another one and are made of debased silver alloy which also varies between 200/1000 and 600/1000
The denomination is indicated by a 2 on the upper side of each coin but the year is written in a puzzled way like 184 and 172. For ex.184 instead of 1814.
Nevertheless,your coins are valuable not only by type or mint but also by well preserved condition. My opinion is that all 3 are of an XF+ to an AU grade(quality). The catalog values are shown in the table I send you next.In an auction you may expect a hammer price of 400-500$ each(ore even more if you are lucky. The172 marked coin has better catalogue value than the 184 ones but is of a lower conservation grade.
Hasta la vista!
Andi
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Andi did some good detective work, Pedro.
I looked them up in my auction database and found these two examples, which are (roughly) in the same condition as yours,
DO NOT CLEAN YOUR COINS, CLEANING RUINS VALUE.
The "184" coin sold to a collector for $316 US dollars. A coin dealer would probably pay $200 for it. The "172" coin sold to a collector for $947. It is is better condition than my "184" coin pictured.