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GotTheBugGotTheBug Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 20, 2019 5:18PM in World & Ancient Coins Forum
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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice list and a neat idea for a set. I'm surprised that you listed only a few pillar dollars and didn't mention the later bust series of 8 Reales that was very popular with Chinese. Bustman Dollars, as they were called. Another fun fact is that export volumes of 8 Reales to China during mid-late 19th Century had influence on the design of the Mexico Republic 8 Reales. When the design switched from Cap and Rays to Balance Scale in 1870's, fineness was increased and as a result the diameter was decreased. On the whole, the amount of silver remained the same, but due to the fact that Chinese merchants did not like the reduced size, export volumes dropped and Mexico mints were forced to return to the previous fineness and Cap and Rays design.

    To summarize, milled pillar 8 reales of Felipe V, Ferdinand VI, Carolus III were widely used and exchanged, as well as bust 8 Reales of Carolus III, Carolus IV, and Ferdinand VII before being replaced by the Mexico Republic Cap and Rays.

    P.S. If you click on the "8 Reales Madness" link in my sig, you'll see quite a few examples of these coins.

    8 Reales Madness Collection
  • GotTheBugGotTheBug Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 20, 2019 5:18PM
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  • STLNATSSTLNATS Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭
    Here's my only US trade $. Certainly spent some time in China. The obverse is especially dark, so I had to fitz with the settings a bit. Not bad for 20 bucks tho.

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,268 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Another one:

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    US Philippines Peso 1903 with chopmarks

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  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    indeed

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My only example. Didn't even know it was punched until I got her home. Paid melt for her image

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  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    that's a very strange off Center wear pattern
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You circumnavigate the globe, get punched, and make it to 109 years of age and see how good you look image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • MilkmanDanMilkmanDan Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You circumnavigate the globe, get punched, and make it to 109 years of age and see how good you look image >>



    For too many coins, that should read:
    You circumnavigate the globe, get punched, and make it to 109 years of age, then get thumbed all over by an over-zealous coin dealer to "clean ya' up"and see how good you look?
  • Dennis88Dennis88 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭


    << <i>United Amsterdam Company Crown of 1601 >>



    What are they talking about? Lion dollars?

    If they are talking about the Dutch East or West India companies...those weren't around yet in 1601 (the East India Company was incorporated in March 1601...the first corporation in the world).

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  • GotTheBugGotTheBug Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 20, 2019 5:19PM
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