Mexico 8 reales 1892 +Chinese caracters? Authentic??

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• MilkmanDan Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2013 8:01AM

  The characters and size of characters look typical of chopmarked 8 reales of this period.

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• TwoKopeiki Posts: 9,867 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2013 8:47AM

  What worries me is that I'm not seeing the "Dragon's Teeth" on either side of the lower central ray. Standardized dies in all branch mints by 1887 all included this anti counterfeiting feature. YQQ, check out the area around that lower central ray under magnification and see if you can find the teeth.

  
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• TwoKopeiki Posts: 9,867 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2013 8:47AM

  

  
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• YQQ Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2013 12:02PM

  Thank you
  I can not see any dragon choppers...
  
  AND, i do not have THE coin.....
  coin is in Europe for sale...
  just thought is does not look right... It is not my bag... I am basically only Canadian.. Old stuff.
  Seller sometimes has interesting stuff and I have done well with him before.
  so anyone, feel free to bid....
  BUT you have to have a German address i believe, or get approved to bid from the US.
  He writes it has a Chinese Counterstamp on it..
  he has a few more mex coins there.
  
  http://www.ebay.de/itm/Mexiko-8-Real-Freiheitskappe-1892-RZ-FZ-ss-mit-Chinesischen-Gegenstempel-/350777188685?pt=Münzen_Medaillen&hash=item51abf3214d
  
  
  

  Today is the first day of the rest of my life

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• LochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭

  May 1, 2013 12:10PM

  Standard dies had dragon teeth, to prevent counterfeit, and this seems to have none... I would wait for another auction lot

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• HoledandCreative Posts: 2,832 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2013 2:48PM

  Looks like they are there to me.

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• Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 2, 2013 1:09AM

  The one in the 1st pic has the dragon teeth i think i can see them. What i dont like is the die crack does not match up. I think i would pass on this one

  
  
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• TwoKopeiki Posts: 9,867 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 2, 2013 1:20AM

  
  
  << <i>The one in the 1st pic has the dragon teeth i can see them. >>
  
  
  
  I'm still not seeing them. Must be getting old Anywho, if the teeth are there - the rest of the die elements look fine (including die breaks often seen on these later dates Zacatecas).
  
  WillieBoyd2, in 1892 all branch mint dies were made in Mexico and were standard. If the anti-counterfeiting device is not there, it's most likely a counterfeit.

  
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