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1842 1/4 Real Mexico - Unknown mint ?

levinlllevinll Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
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Bought this as silver at the store yesterday. Trying to authenticate it. The mint marks on the obverse (ZLR) don't match anything that I've found online.

Can anyone tell me if it's real, and if so, what Mexican mint was it struck at.

Thx.

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    TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,539 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Haven't dabbled into these, plus at work right now without any references on-hand, but looks to be a Zacatecas Mint quartilla.

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    levinlllevinll Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
    According to the CoinFactsWiki,

    They were issued by the Chihuahua (mintmark "Ca", rare), Culiacan (mintmark "C", rare), Durango (mintmark "Do", not common), Guadalajara (mintmark "Ga", common), Guadalupe y Calvo (mintmark "GC", rare), Guanajuato (mintmark "Go", common), Mexico City (mintmark "Mo", common), San Luis Potosi (mintmark "SLPi", common) and Zacatecas (mintmark "Zs", common) mints.
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,947 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Try this.
    Andy Lustig

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    OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
    I'm going to take a shot at this with KM 368.8 Zacatecas mint. Zacatecas is however, Zs LR!

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    HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,767 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The date looks to be the overdate -- 1842/1. Also the Zs mm looks to be missing the s. An interesting variety of a fairly common coin, in my opinion.
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