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How Would You Grade This 1876 Spanish 5 Pesetas?

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How would you grade my coin? Thanks! (Sorry that there is a shadow of my window screen across the coin in the first pic).





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 Posted 05/25/2013  10:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gremladen to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I would guess xf 40-45... lettering on reverse columns looks faded a bit, few chips on his face, and minor rim dings...
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Gremladen- Thanks for the input! I am just trying to determine if it's a VF or an EF since there is a very notable difference in value listed in Krause.
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I think it's a bit less than XF 40, perhaps 37 or 38.

However, are you sure it's genuine ?

I, unwittingly, bought a fake a couple of years ago.
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Pertinax- Yep, I'm 99% sure that it's real. I have seen fakes when in Spain, and I accidentally bought one back in 2008. So I have become much more familiar with this type of coin.

It is amazing just how many fakes flood Spanish coin shows. I went to one in Barcelona one time, and I swear that about 40% of all coins for sale were fake. But, luckily, most were horribly bad fakes (8 Reales with raised chop marks, fake 5 Peseta coins with a fake George III counterstrikes - quite an anachronism, fake coins with the wrong reverse, etc) , so it was not too difficult to find real coins.
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