Need help: 1733 Spainish coin

coffeyce

I got this a few months back and havent been able to get a good picture until I found my camera today. Wanted to see if anyone can tell if this is a authentic G.P. or a counterfiet. I have also included a Un Sol counterstamped with a 1/4 Real. any help with these rarity value ect would be great.

Chris

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/coffeyce/1733-2.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/coffeyce/1733-1.jpg

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/coffeyce/CS-2.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo106/coffeyce/CS-1.jpg

syl

The coin is authentic, a 1733 PA 1 real from Spain. The G-P is a counterstamp (and it looks official) for the coin to be accepted in another country or posession. I looked at both Guatemala and Guadalupe (which was French, not Spanish at the time), but no luck. Both those countries used Spanish countermarked coins, as did many others during that time. The Spanish posessions in the new world went from the southern tip of Chile to the Canadian border and much of the Carribean. Normall the G-P countermark is from the Azores, which was Portuguese .. but Spanish coinage was the aceptable trade median throughout the world at the time. It could be from there, but no Krause verification.

syl

On the counterstamped 1833 Peru 1 sol, counterstamped for Guatemala. It looks authentic as well, but I can't read the Guatemala value .. is it 1 1/2 real? They counterstamped many Peru and other Spanish posession coins for use in Guatemala and prices are all over the place for them, but Krause has your 1894 coin, in an older edition, at $30 VF & $40 XF. They were also used for the "Central American republic" which is what Guatemala was in the same time frame as the Peru coin. Here is a link to a similar one. http://www.rondomons.nl/index.php?page=coins&pid=166