DoriCarter
Joined: 5 Oct 2015
Posts: 4
Posted: 5 Oct 2015, 17:04
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Posted: 5 Oct 2015, 17:04
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i know nothing of coins but I found this in an old box. Is it real or how can I tell? Is so what is the value?
muygrandeoso
Joined: 24 Apr 2015
Posts: 449
Posted: 5 Oct 2015, 18:08
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Posted: 5 Oct 2015, 18:08
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It looks like a Colonial Mexico 8 Reales, but it looks like it might be a cast fake to me.
It should weigh 27.07 grams
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15060.html
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DoriCarter
Joined: 5 Oct 2015
Posts: 4
Posted: 5 Oct 2015, 18:34
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Posted: 5 Oct 2015, 18:34
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It is heavy in my hand, but I don't have an adequate gram scale. :(
PetrusAscanus
Joined: 22 Nov 2014
Posts: 6304
Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 00:49
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Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 00:49
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The details look very crude.
Might be a (chinese) replica
Do you have the dimensions?
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DoriCarter
Joined: 5 Oct 2015
Posts: 4
Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 01:07
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Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 01:07
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It is one inch.
Eagle eyes
Joined: 6 Oct 2015
Posts: 7
Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 06:11
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Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 06:11
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It is made of a lost-wax casting in China, in 1992, on the coastal city North of Hong Kong, in a little shop with a man named Chong running it. He also sells 700-year old Tibetan hand-crafted Buddha's made of Jade, but he gets them from Mexico, and it is not really Jade.
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kommodore
Joined: 5 Nov 2009
Posts: 3010
Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 12:37
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Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 12:37
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I may go ahead and say it's a fake from that era (just my opinion).
Doesn't look chinese made.
Fluke
Joined: 22 Mar 2015
Posts: 1864
Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 13:36
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Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 13:36
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The fake give away for me immediately is the " III ", it is slightly tilted to the left.
Shame, it would have been a nice coin if genuine.
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DoriCarter
Joined: 5 Oct 2015
Posts: 4
Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 15:38
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Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 15:38
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Thanks y'all! I thought so too- but i wanted to check before it became a part of my son's pirate theme playtime!
redsmithstudios
Joined: 20 Dec 2010
Posts: 3064
Posted: 7 Oct 2015, 00:56
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Posted: 7 Oct 2015, 00:56
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Pirate play time is a great use for it. I was going to ask if you wanted it becuase thats what l would do with it. You could write fake on it though.
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!
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