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New Member
France
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Hi all! I'm new member, my name is Fabrizio and writing from Germany. I'm very grateful to everyone expert on this coin who can confirm authenticity of this coin. weight is 26,82 grams Thanks! Regards    |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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No, that does not look genuine. Some obvious problems: the edge is not correct and appears to have been completely overlapped; oddly shaped denticles with way too much space between them.
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New Member
 France
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@jgenn thank you for you information
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Moderator
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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dies I agree with jgenn that the coin can not be authentic, I would add to that it is almost without a doubt a relatively modern Numismatic Forgery and not a highly collectable "Contemporary Circulating Counterfeit". I was wondering how you acquired the coin and if possible from whom? I am a collector and researcher of fake Mexican 8 Reales and I have an interest in both period and modern fakes. The edge design used is what I am specifically interested in. If you ever want to sell this please post a comment here and I will get in touch with you. swamperbob - Robert Gurney North Carolina, USA
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New Member
France
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Hi swamperbob and thanks a lot for your comment too. I bought from ebay. Seller was from greece, and I have already shipped back to him, because payed a lot (336€). Seller insists that is authentic 100%, but I opened paypal invoce to be refunfed. Thanks for your interest and kindly confimation. Ciao! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1962 Posts |
I put this in the "get back to" column... Have now gotten back to it :-> Had a hunch about where these were from... some digging proved that out. This piece in question from ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/8-Reales-M...133336308343This piece, as suspected, came from Schulman in the Netherlands (the old family firm that the famous/infamous Hans Schulman was part of originally before coming to America): https://www.biddr.com/auctions/schu...563&l=576627He currently has listed: https://www.ebay.com/itm/8-Reales-M...133373989774which was: https://www.biddr.com/auctions/schu...563&l=576630And, on Catawiki: https://www.catawiki.com/l/35300021...ipe-v-silverwhich was: https://www.biddr.com/auctions/schu...563&l=576625Schulman, in multiple auctions over the past 3-4 years or so, has auctioned off a large chunk of ROOSWIJK shipwreck finds - mostly pillars, plus some Klippes and a few cobs. Note that he finished the "conservation" (cleaning) job on these pieces... I can personally attest that these were done a bit sloppily (abrasively cleaned leading to notable hairlining, more uneven tone remaining than pics showed, etc.). PS - if that edge design presentation (with what seems to be an exaggeratedly long segment of overlap or doubling, whatever it is) looks all that damming... you haven't looked at enough early pillars in hand. This feature is NOT that out of the ordinary on such pieces. There are TONS of these 1730s-early 1740s pilalrs floating around out there from the Big 3 wreck sources (Hollandia, Rooswijk, Reijgersdaal) - go to Baltimore or an ANA or similar (if the world doesn't end) and play with some in hand. Edited by realeswatcher
04/02/2020 01:09 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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FYI, one nice thing... the seller has a bunch of rather clear edge pics on all of his listings. Save and study :->
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1962 Posts |
A nice klippe from Schulman's most recent Rooswijk batch back in October. Haven't been on top of my auction game lately - would have bid on this one as it's a great large planchet strike:  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Very nice research. Just did my first business with Schulman recently (but I stay far away from Spanish colonials  |
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Pillar of the Community
Singapore
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Would the small holes be indicative of casting marks ?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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"Would the small holes be indicative of casting marks?"
Read through the entire thread...
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Valued Member
United States
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So, if I'm reading this correctly, the OP's coin is a counterfeit and the Schulman pieces are genuine? It looks like the OP's coin has the same reverse as one linked to the auction. the castles match and I see a tiny round pimple on the outer edge of the shield across from the top of the "8." I'm not able to print the images so I can compare them better.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The piece the OP posted (which he bought on ebay, then returned) was Lot 184 from the May 2019 Schulman auction, as I linked. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks. I'm a little slow so that means the OP's coin is genuine in spite of some opinions here.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In general, nobody can authenticate a coin from photographs. The best we can do is point out obvious inconsistencies with what we understand to be the genuine appearance. Based on the ebay edge photos of the OP coin that realeswatcher kindly linked, I would only believe the edge to have been done on a parallel edging device if the blank was processed twice. Not impossible but certainly not the normal process. That being said, I would offer the opinion that the OP coin and other linked coin are "market acceptable", meaning that most if not all dealers would sell or auction them without hesitation. That is not the same as declaring them to be genuine; dealers are not in the business of authenticating coins. Edited by jgenn
04/21/2020 12:54 pm
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