1/4 Sol from Metz. Fake? [解決]

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Hello it's my first time writing down on the forum and I'm an amateur who recently did some research about this coin which seems to be a 1/4 Sol from Metz. The date seems to be either 1689, 1639 or 1659 as it's supposed to be.

Though I think it looks good even if it's in a quite bad shape, it doesn't looks like it's made of silver but rather copper, as the little green rust on it and it's black, maybe even red-ish color seems to indicate.
Maybe it's just because it's quite old and the silver is just oxidized, but I still wonder if it's a real coin made out of silver or rather a fake one as I think. If it does be made out of copper, I wonder if it's a copy made during these time like those false reproduction made under the First French Empire.

I thought about cleaning it to see if it's just due to a quite apparent patina and some copper residue on it, but I'm reluctant to that idea.
Anyway, here are pictures.



(Sorry for the quality)

I hope you'll be able to answer me and thank you for those trying to help me.

(Sorry if some sentences/words sound wrong, strange or mispelled, English is not my primary language.)
Cj
I believe you're correct. It does seem to be this coin: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22062.html
Of the 3 dates only 1659 exist on the page for this coin.
I'm not an expert but even though it's a "silver" coin it's only 11.1% silver. I'm not sure what makes up the other 88.9% but to me it's not surprising it has non-silver corrosion product on it. I wouldn't try to clean it.
Just found a couple of the same type coins on eBay. They don't look too good either.

Thank you for answering rsirian. With such a quite small amount of silver, I guess it can explain the seemingly copper rust and maybe the quite black tone of the coin, probably due to oxidization I guess? There seems to Also be some red-ish spots, maybe those are non-oxidized spots or like iron rust? It's difficult to tell.

Also, about cleaning it, it world reduce its value? Or is it because it may damage it? I tried once to clean a non-valuable coin but it did... Some unexpected results on it.
Cj
Copper is a very common alloying element in silver coins. I'm fairly certain a coin with 11.1% silver would have a lot of copper in it and possibly other elements (maybe iron) in it. Over time, especially in a corrosive (wet) environment, the coin will corrode (green from the copper) and possibly reddish from iron. I don't see any reason (unless the diameter and/or the weight is off considerably) to think your coin is fake.
As far as cleaning, I think you'll end up damaging it more than removing the corrosion products.
I hope you can have another go at taking pictures. the first ones are hard to make out at all.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
引用する: "Cjfrontennac259"​(Sorry if some sentences/words sound wrong, strange or mispelled, English is not my primary language.)
​Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with your English. Your pictures on the other hand, they really aren't well enough to work with. To me, the last number looks like a 5 in stead of a 9 but that doesn't seem to fit in with the existing dates. Maybe it's a later type (1665 could be a possible date), because your coin hasn't the date in exergue while the picture on the coin page does?
Status changed to Solved (Cjfrontennac259, 11 3月 2021, 01:55)

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