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 Posted 09/26/2012  7:36 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Jaymon74 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all!

I have searched through my World Coins book and cannot find this one anywhere! Anyone have an idea of some sort?

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 Posted 09/26/2012  9:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There are two good reasons why you've been unsuccessful in finding it. It's not a genuine coin, and the genuine coin, which this is somewhat loosely copied from, dates from the 1500s.

The coin in question is a "Reyes Catolicos" Spanish 8 reales from the time of Ferdinand and Isabella (early 1500s). The original coins are silver, with Latin text. These copies, which we've seen on the forum numerous times before - here, here and here, for example - are made of brass and the Latin has become so garbled it's impossible to read anymore.

I'm not quite sure where they came from, but given the quantity of them that's turned up over the years, they seem to have been mass-produced and mass-distributed - either as tourist-trap "pirate souvenirs" or by readers Digest or some similar bookseller as one of their silly promotional gimmicks.
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 Posted 09/27/2012  05:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jaymon74 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you Sap! I thought the text looked a lot like Ethiopian. Lol That does explain why I couldn't find it.
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