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help can anyone tell me anything about this coin & it's value if any?

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  • coffeycecoffeyce Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭

    I haven't a clue from the pictures but you might want to re-take a better picture for the blurry one. also with these older coins weight diameter ect would probably help a lot more and check if its silver or magnetic as there are a lot of fakes out there.

  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would say it looks like a copy but need better pic as well.



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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 19, 2017 8:49PM

    Appears to be a copy of an early Spanish 8 reale Cob, the crudely made, hand-struck but widely circulated coins of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.

    I'm by no means an expert, but it doesn't have the correct look to me to be authentic. Likely a fantasy piece made for tourists in vacation area near the beach. Your mileage may vary.

    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
  • Appears to have a casting seam going around the edge. I agree that it looks to be a tourist souvenir.

    Highly enthusiastic about world coins, contemporary circulating counterfeits and unusual stuff <3

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