Help Identifying/Value...
Coll3ctor
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Can anyone help me with the value of the 3 coins and exactly what they are called besides 8 Reales? The year of the fat man Chinese coin?
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All 3 of those dated coins have been heavily copied and/or reissued/restruck. Be careful. I don't know enough about them to tell you whats-what. The Maria Theresa thaler (Austria) has been reissued/restruck for many many years
The Maria Theresa is a bullion coin that has been struck in huge numbers over a very long period.
The Mexican coin has been cleaned and has grafitti on the obverse.
The Chinese coin has been extensively counterfeited. I'm not an expert on them but wouldn't touch a raw one.
I'm pretty sure that the Mexican and fat man coins are legit.
The fat man dollar is year 10, which is 1921
The Chinese dollar has oddly regular indentations around the edge on both sides. I would assume those are mount-marks, and that the coin was formerly mounted into a piece of jewellery.
Maria Theresa thalers were extensively restruck, long after 1780 and they are still being made in Austria today, all with the "1780" date; the coin became a popular trade coin in the Red Sea area (Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia). There are websites you can look up to try to identify the mint of origin and approximate year of issue. Most of the thalers you are likely to encounter at random are recent issues from the Austrian mint, and are only worth bullion value (currently US$17.56).
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
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