1748 Spanish Silver Coin

Its beaten to heck and back tbh. I only pays $25 for it. And I have some old coke bottles from same flea market and they are legit. So idk.

Save your image in some sort of photo shop software like Adobe or other functional equal picture manager. Then "save as" jpeg. A dialog box should pop up asking you to set the detail level. At the bottom you will see the file size. Use the one that gives you an end result of less than 200kb. Also use the photo editor to crop out non-coin detail and also re-size the image to fit best. I often reduce my coin images and they are quite small files sizes, but they are good enough to show here.

I resized the pictures that were in fair or better focus.










It would be better to have pictures in better focus but I am of the opinion that the coin is a numismatic forgery.

The edge, although out of focus, appears to show a raised center - a seam. The faces show a roughness of the fields and a lack of sharp detail that also indicates forgery.

I would weigh the coin and then determine the density of the metal. Weight divided by volume is density. The best way to calculate the volume of a coin is to determine the weight of water it displaces. So weigh the coin in air and then again in water suspended by a very fine thread. The loss of weight is the displacement.

Divide the weight of the coin by the weight loss in water and you have the density.

The density of a genuine 8R will be 10.31 and the weight should be about 26.9 grams.