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Help With A 1891 Mexican Reale Of 8 Mexico City

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 Posted 11/05/2008  8:32 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add TNG to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I love the color of this coin, and it has cartwheel luster even though it is probably a shade darker than my images show. I think it has a assayer designation AM and a mintmark M there appears a small o which evidently is for the Mexico City mint.
I suspect it to have uncirculated details but dare not grade.
Can anyone clarify my coin dated 1891 and perhaps give a poke at a value?
I think it would look a lot better if I took these images outside of the cello lined silver dollar size 2x2.
I do not know what the small s mint mark like letter is for?
Thank you!
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Another shot.
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EDIT NOTE: Thank you for the input jfransch.
mintmark is Mo for Mexico City and the assayer is AM
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 Posted 11/05/2008  8:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jfransch to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is a Mexican 8 reales, mintmark is Mo for Mexico City and the assayer is AM. It is a common date. Nice condition, hard to grade from your photo because of the lighting. $20-$30 coin is my guess.
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That most certainly looks like an Unc to me. Very nice! The ol' standard catalog says that it is about $60 in Unc. A great find. So how did you acquire this coin?
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Thanks for the compliment Archraz and response.
If my memory is correct, I bought it at a local friendly Coin Club auction for 15 bucks about 15 - 20 years ago. It was in a brown 2x2 paper envelope and I left it there for another 10 years or so before putting it in the present holder.
I don't think it got any darker the last 10 years in the paper flip but I would suspect it helped the toning process in the first place.
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 Posted 11/06/2008  12:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jfransch to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I guess I need to update my pricing. Nice coin you got there Whezydog. Any more 8's in your stash?
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 Posted 11/06/2008  09:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TNG to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This is the only one I have, when I get a chance, I think I will get an airtight holder for it, and while it is out of this holder, update the images.

Thank you again guys for the compliments.
I have some other nice World coins I will be taking images of soon.
I might actually list a couple batches on here for a CCF auction in the near future.
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