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Can somebody identify this coin

Okay, let's look at what there is to see first.  The lower photo seems to have an inscription in Latin similiar to British coins.  There is a name on the left, looks like it ends with the letters "mat", followed by a separator dot, then a "II", so "....mat the second".  Then we have D.G., the Latin abbreviation for "Deo Gratia", meaning "by the grace of God", followed by two each 2 letter groupings I can't make out, and then the word "REX", meaning 'king'.

So ".....mat the second, by the grace of God, (something), King.  Same pattern used on British coins.

Maybe I am stating the obvious, but that's all I have!  Did you dig this one up yourself, perhaps in England?

Good luck!
Raider
Also, the lower photo is shown turned 90 degrees left.  It shows a shield with the letters K and B on either side, respectively.
This isn't English.  The Latin is for  "Mat(thias) II . D(ei) G(ratia) Hu(ngaria) . Bo(hemia) . Rex ..." The rest of the inscription is cut off.

This, then, is a Hungarian silver Denar, likely from 1611 (when Matthias became King of Bohemia).  Krause lists the coin at the following link:

http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/WorldCoinPrices.aspx?category=26820&worldcoinid=78688

Given the obscured inscription, though, it could be this:

http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/WorldCoinPrices.aspx?category=27070&worldcoinid=79957

Good luck on further identification!
Well Done!  I had no clue what the HU and BO were all about.  Do you know what the K and B represent?
That is the mint mark, and it represents "Körmöcz-Bánya" (Hungarian) or "Kremnitz-Bergstadt" (German).  It happened to be one of the most productive mints in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and produced coins right up until the 20th Century.  Read more about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremnica_mint

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