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• TwoKopeiki Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 30, 2012 3:05AM

  Looks like something trying to be an 8 Reales cob and failing miserably at it.

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 44,827 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 30, 2012 3:12AM

  Yep, fake piece of eight. Probably from a museum gift shop where they hawk 'em to tourists. I used to buy them as a kid in Florida, when we lived on the treasure coast. They looked snazzy in my fish tank.

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• theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭

  July 30, 2012 3:20AM

  Thank you, confirms my suspicion that it was not real. Looked too new and not dark enough for a real one.

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 44,827 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 30, 2012 3:28AM

  Mushy detail, like a cast piece. Dead giveaway. Mind you, some of the sea-salvaged real ones can look pretty awful, and they were crude to begin with, but that one is a pretty blatant replica. Those M's in the angles of the cross are pretty strange, too. (Or W's? The lions are upside-down in your picture. Never seen that on a real coin, as far as I can remember. Maybe it's a trademark of whoever cast the replicas?)

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• Sapyx Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 30, 2012 4:50PM

  1736 is a very commonly seen date on replica Spanish colonials. Apparently they sell them at Disneyland.

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• theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭

  July 30, 2012 7:05PM

  
  
  << <i>1736 is a very commonly seen date on replica Spanish colonials. Apparently they sell them at Disneyland. >>
  
  
  
  Since I live just an Hour away from that playgroud, it is not a surprise that he had this. Thanks

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