Post your Mexican Half Real (or other Mint)

1Bustcollector

Any Mexican Half Real collectors out there?



Note: Edited Picture so its round and not oval.

TwoKopeiki

I wanted to collect half reales, but kept losing them (way too small!!!)

1Bustcollector

I understand............no problem, just leaves more for me to enjoy and study. Btw, you have an excellent eye with your collection!

Andres

very nice coins !
what is the diameter / weight ?

bidask

I got a few but no pictures.....they can come in surprisingly high grades ...like yours!

BS

Here's a couple that I have.

1Bustcollector

Nice examples BS collector! Andres, I measured a few diameters and found a range from .640"-.685" inches. Yes, they are very small. Will have to weigh later. Bidask, no problem without having pics.

I posted another. This one came from CRO......Photo courtesy CRO/Goodman:

BS

Thanks 1Bustcollector. You have a very impressive collection.

lordmarcovan

You might say the price was right on this one.

I dug it up during a detector outing.




I had dug a holed 1776 half-real on the same site the previous evening, so when I went out the next morning and dug this one within a few feet of where the first one had been, I was a happy camper indeed. That was a crackerjack site. They'd bulldozed an area behind an old church to make a parking lot for their buses, and the bare sandy area was chock full of early pottery sherds and other artifacts. It was plain to see there had been a late 18th/early 19th century house on the site prior to the church's establishment in 1859. Another detectorist had found an 1899 $5.00 gold piece on the site years before I visited it.

This particular one is the only piece of Spanish colonial silver I've found so far that wasn't holed. (So far I have found three half-reales, one 1-real, and a 2-reales piece.) The toning on it was acquired after more than a decade in my detector finds album. I found the coin in 1996 or so and cleaned it with electrolysis after finding it. It's retoned pretty nicely, I'd say.

PS- your coin in the OP is truly stunning. Some of the others posted thus far ain't too shabby, either.

1Bustcollector

What a great story, Lordmarcovan! I need to take up your passion and follow those dusty trails.........The coin has retoned nicely as you say.

Ok, I'll post a lower grade, but a decent example I had purchased years ago for the fun of it. Enjoy.

lordmarcovan

Just got this one as a free gift in a package I opened yesterday.

Free Spanish silver is nice enough, but the other coin in the package was awesome!

So... whaddya think? 1808? It's a Ferdie7, so that knocks off a lot of the other possibilities ending in "8".