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Re: What is your take on this auction caption? Mystery Solved
If you notice, all the descriptions seem to provide various factoids about the type of coin being offered... Frankly, to characterize one individual piece of metal as the nicest quality specimen in t… (View Post)1 -
Re: Mexico 8 Reales 1823 - I need your help
Genuine. Iturbide 8R sell for crazy money now. Expensive is not the word I would use... (View Post)2 -
Re: Mexico- 1866 Pi - Peso// 1866 Mo added
That's a real crusty luster piece. Patina too thick to try any dunk (perhaps if someone had done so 50 years ago...). Can't at all quibble with the technical grade. Obverse looks pretty OK.… (View Post)1 -
Re: What do you think - same obverse die? (update in last post)
Quite possibly... based on how the legend lettering and his chicken feathers line up with the denticles, plus how TI of GRATIA interacts with the edge. (View Post)2 -
Re: North/South/Central American Coins Thursday, let's see them!
@Abuelo, interesting piece, nicely struck/preserved. I do believe that's a well-executed example of one of the numerous contemporary counterfeits of this series, for which 1836 is definitely the… (View Post)4