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Is this 8 Reales genuine?

Alltheabove76Alltheabove76 Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭
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Bought this at a coin show today, but I know there are a lot of fakes. I am not experiences enough with them to know what to look for. The weight is 27.0 grams.
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  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,651 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As best I can tell from the photo, it looks good to me.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,838 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it is okay-

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  • OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Unusually flat strike, but looks okay!
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  • JimKJimK Posts: 605
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  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    you posted this edge shot in the US forum - if it looks like this the entire circumference, without any lat or sanded areas, the coin is good
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,885 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks good to me. I rather like the toning.

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  • Rickc300Rickc300 Posts: 876 ✭✭
    If that edge pic is of the coin you question and I think it is by the post, it looks A-OK to me. I would have no problem adding that one to my little hoard and be proud to show it off too... This is one of those things nice people should not ask but if you don't mind my asking anyway, what did you have to give for it?
    Nice pick up! I wish it were mine!

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  • OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Alltheabove76 just posted on the US forum that the coin came back from ANACS as NOT GENUINE Struck copy. Who da thunk it?!? In hindsight, I should have known better because these 8's don't come flatly struck like this. My bad! image
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  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One hell of a nice looking fake. Yikes.
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>One hell of a nice looking fake. Yikes. >>




    I agree, it does look good, but ANACS must also have seen its twin(s) with the same tooling mark/dimple diagnostics repeated ad nauseum.


    Those Bay Area 1835 half cents fooled 99% of the EAC guys, and the TPGs too, until a couple of them compared their new "beauties" side-by-side. image


  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,838 ✭✭✭✭✭
    While I admit to being fooled- I am not wild about the surfaces- perhaps someone can tell if it is a contemporary counterfeit

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a modern era counterfeit from transfer dies. This thread on the lightside provides all the proof you'll need.
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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,291 ✭✭✭
    A well made fake, but I do see a couple of red flags on the obverse.
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