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1736 8 Reales, Real Or Not?

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Need help with this.
39.93 mm
23.2 grams
non-magnetic

It's underweight. It's corroded from something. Seawater? Is weight loss accounted for with the corrosion?





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Can we see the side?
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An edge view will definitely confirm counterfeit or real BUT date looks very strange/flawed (not to mention the lettering) compared to this one up for auction!

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01/08/2017 6:33 pm
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The corrosion damage looks like on a real (authentic) sea-salvaged coin.

I have not yet seen a fake coin corroded like that.
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Here's the edge.



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Genuine, lower-grade salvage, plus some presumably post-recovery rim filing/similar damage at the lower left (pillars side).
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