need help with a 1757 and 1800 coin, no idea of what country...

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• Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 2, 2004 2:45PM

  Spanish colonial, made in Central and South America, the top one is a one real and I think the bottom one is a half-real, the ancient and foreign forum will no doubt give you a more specific answer, but you might also find out more here, good luck

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• jhar Posts: 1,126 ✭

  August 3, 2004 1:33AM

  Neat coins!!

  J'har
  

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• earlwbollinger Posts: 1,304

  August 3, 2004 2:30AM

  Spanish Colonial, both look to have a Mexico City Mint Mark. The M with the little o over it.
  The bottom one has a better mintmark wheras the top one is worn down a lot.
  This is off the top of my poor little head so I could be in error though.
  Like he stated above they look like 1 real and 1/2 real coins hard to tell though for sure.
  
  These types of coins were actually used a lot as money in the early USA, especially in the southern and western areas.
  It's where the phrase "two bits, four bits, eight bits a dollar" comes from.
  8 reals = one dollar
  1 real = twenty cents
  1/2 real = ten cents or a dime (disme)
  
  
  

  

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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  August 3, 2004 3:15AM

  Yes Spanish colonial, both from Mexico.. The 1800 is a 1 reale, the denomination (1R) is next to the mintmark. Th 1757, since it is smaller, is probably a half reale but I don't see the denomination on it.

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• edsiajb Posts: 98

  August 3, 2004 4:40AM

  I have had several of these in different denoms for a number of years. I have really enjoyed having them in my collection. These did circulate in parts of the US.

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• millennium Posts: 3,305

  August 3, 2004 4:56AM

  Herre is one I found with a mteal detector in southeast Georgia.....Shows some of the details a little better..
  
  

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• Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 3, 2004 5:29AM

  Here are some that I got a while back
  
  
  
  there's a 2 real, a 1 real, and a couple of half reals.

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