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Valued Member
Philippines
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Hi there everyone, a friend of mine just sent me a picture of this marvelous Spanish coin thru email and I'm hoping to see more of this coinage. My friend forgot to add what website he found it and I'm getting impatient since he has not emailed me yet. has anybody seen this picture from a website? please do tell thanks! Image:  Mexico 8 reales.jpg81.41 KB |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1173 Posts |
Sorry...can't help you. Cool coin, however.
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Moderator
 United States
6563 Posts |
Swamperbob should be around shortly to give you some info and verify it's authenticity.
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Moderator
 United States
23522 Posts |
Try a Google search for the original filename of that picture.
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Forum Dad
United States
24155 Posts |
It's from an ebay auction, look at the bottom right. |
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Valued Member
 Philippines
52 Posts |
Thanks guys, though I haven't found the website yet but am still searching. tried looking at it at ebay.com yet there is no picture similar to the one am looking. |
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Forum Mom
United States
5877 Posts |
For what it's worth, I don't believe this coin is real. Where the F is to the left of the shield, I believe that should have an M above it. I can't find a coin in Krause that matches this one.
I am going to move this topic to the World Coins section and add 1793 8 Reales to the title so that Swamperbob will see it.
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Pillar of the Community
Czech Republic
803 Posts |
I'm not familiar with "Pillars", but this one looks like one of two things:
1. Salt-water corrosion, usually associated with sea-salvaged coins.
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2. Cast counterfeit, using a real coin as template for the mold.
~Roman
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Valued Member
Philippines
52 Posts |
hmmm....a MX mintmark? seems unusual. is it minted in Madrid?
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Moderator
Australia
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Um, the date on that coin is 1733. It's not from "Old Spain" - the Spanish mints never issued the Pillar Dollar design.
The 1700's Krause has a listing under Mexico for the 1733 F (MX) mintmark combination: "Rare... sale 7-96 [of a VF example] realised $11,710".
If it's claiming to be genuine, it had better have a five-figure pricetag and a darned good provenance.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The coin pictured is a 1733 MX F 8 Reales minted by Spain at their Mexico City mint. It is a sea salvaged example, most of that date show signs of salvage since the entire 1733 treasure fleet was sunk in a hurricane off the Florida Keys. Hard to tell from that photo what the surfaces really look like but on the site columnarios.com there is a photo of a really well curated 1733Mx in the catalogue section. It shows perfect surfaces where there is no corrosion, that particular coin was found in a clump of pillars and only has damage from sea water along the outside edges of the coin, once the clump corroded over the inside coins were protected from damage. 1733MX F, along with the even rarer 1733 MX MF are 2 of the keys to the entire mexican 8 reale series.
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Mexico 8 reales.jpg
Posted 07/12/2007 10:36 am
