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Fake: 8 Reales 1769 Carolus III

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 Posted 04/18/2017  10:00 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Erba to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all. At request in answer by SPENCE on my first post:
While looking around in antique shops in Peru, I recently came across this little gem :-) The first thing that struck me was the weird looking lions on the shield. Then the edge was a dead give away. The shop owner said it is a genuine columnario and his asking price was about $350,- He had a few other spanish colonial coins including two cobs that looked weird to me as well. Didnt bother taking pictures of those. I thanked him for his time.



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 Posted 04/18/2017  10:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Lucky Cuss to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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The first thing that struck me was the weird looking lions on the shield.


The castles are a pretty good tipoff (rhymes with "ripoff") as well. The globes are also terrible. In fact, the whole is generally pathetic.

A lot of folks may not realize it, but Peru rivals China in counterfeiting, mostly currency but coinage as well. The pictured specimen may very well have been a local product.

Great on the spot photos, by the way.

Colligo ergo sum
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