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jayPemjayPem Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

Success at last in a European auction!
Its one I've been after for a long time, it just arrived and looks quite nice in hand.
Now I have to make sure it's authentic...😅

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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 11,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice! Head of a Fool stamped on the neck of an ass

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    TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,539 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 20, 2021 1:14PM

    It's authentic. Congrats - very nice example of a scarcer counterstamp. Host 8R is also double-struck. I have been hesitating to add an example as a type and that coin would definitely qualify.

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    jayPemjayPem Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nailed it Boosibri 👍
    2K, I was so excited when this arrived and I was able to get a good look at that in hand!
    Pretty much everything on the obverse has some amount of doubling, some faint some bold. I like the slightly off center strike too.
    I've passed on a good number of these the last few years, made sure this one didn't get away! And probably overpaid plenty for the privilege 😅

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    jayPemjayPem Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Next up in the set for me will hopefully be a couple oval 4 reales..
    And maybe a non-regal octagonal stamp or 2 would be great as well.. if anyone has any they would like to part with 😉

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    Bob13Bob13 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great pick up! Love the octagonal counterstamp. I would be happy to own that coin.

    My current "Box of 20"

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