I like the piece you have shared with us. Over the years I have owned a small handful of these and the coins are absolutely huge! It always amazes me at the size of these things.
Great piece. I sold mine awhile back but whenever I see a thread about those huge pieces, it makes me want to go find another one. Good conversation pieces to share with non-numismatic folks.
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It is interesting. Is it a restrike?
8 Reales Madness Collection
No it's original, just in a pretty good state of preservation, nice surfaces, usually these are kind of mutilated/pitted/corroded.
But this thing is huge, I mean how did people carry these around? Not a pocket piece for sure...
Nice centering, excellent details.
Those are the small hockey puck sized coins, right?
That's probably the nicest once I've seen.
@ShadyDave yeah, it's big, 51.2 grams, 42mm round, and a whopping 4mm thick.
Some info on it...
It happens to be a better date, with mintage of only 1.95m pieces, while most had mintages 20x to 40x of that.
I like the piece you have shared with us. Over the years I have owned a small handful of these and the coins are absolutely huge! It always amazes me at the size of these things.
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Those are cool for sure!
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Great piece. I sold mine awhile back but whenever I see a thread about those huge pieces, it makes me want to go find another one. Good conversation pieces to share with non-numismatic folks.
It is about the same size is its contemporary, the English Two Pence 'Cartwheel' of 1797 which is 56.7g, 41mm diameter, 5mm thick.
A decent example... Finding attractive examples at the right price is not as easy as it looks.
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Definitely a choice "whopper copper".
I have similar coin but with letters AM inside.
However, your example is really in good conditions!
I have bought these in Europe on occasion and generally they are referred to as "the Russian Monster" when conversing with others on the topic of them
Latin American Collection
Here's an example I once owned. 1791/0 (unlisted overdate) in PCGS MS62.
Gobrecht's Engraved Mature Head Large Cent Model
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All the mints other than EM are better pieces!