Talbot County GaArchives News.....Old Coin December 24 1903
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The Talbotton New Era

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, December 24, 1903
Page Seven 

Old Coin

We have a Spanish coin which we got from Mr. J.D. Marshall dated 1709 and made 
in the time of Charles IIII, of Spain.  It was found in a field five miles 
north of Talbotton and was probably lost there during the Spanish occupancy of 
this part of Georgia before Oglethorpe organized the colony of Georgia.  It 
will be remembered that Oglethorpe had a fight with the Spainards a few years 
after he settled at Savannah in 1733.  If this old coin could talk it would 
probably tell a curious tale of Spaniards and Indians.  On one side is 
written, “Carobus IIII Dei Gratia (Charles IV by the grace of God) and on the 
other, “Hispan et Ind. Rex” (probably King of Spain and the Indies).



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