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Central American Republic Coins And Related 1824 - Abt 1860

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I guess I'll join the party, this is my only coin I own that's denominated in reales. It's 2 reales from 1847 - it was priced at $8.50 and listed as AG, but I bought it with many other cheap coins and the dealer halved the price because I looked young and impressionable! Well, I appreciated it for about $4. My logic was that since this coin looked really crude, it probably suffered not from wear but a crappy strike and would be graded higher than AG. I think I was right! I thought it was a contemporary counterfeit, but it looks like all Honduras coins of this era look awful. The high points look like copper showing through from underneath a thin silver wash, but I think the coin's really low fineness is to blame. With the amount of silver in it it is not really worth counterfeiting...
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Westwood Arms. I don't know where the current high grade Quartillas originated from. Back a few years I purchased 400 Quartillas, a hoard that came out of Guatemala but the coins were low grade.
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RealesWatcher. The blob on the 1845 Quartilla is a progressive die break. The seller thought it was solder from a button. I will check on the "5".
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I love that sun behind the mountains design.
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The 1845 Quartilla date is not struck over something. Just a spot of toning.
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