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New Member
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I have several of these coins. They were dug up during a construction project. They are 1741 and show Mexico city as mill site but with Ferdinand on them.   |
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New Member
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Is this normal? I can't find anything on it anywhere..
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Is this normal? No, it is not normal in the least. Another way to say that is this "coin" is not genuine in the least. Compare it to this example sold by Heritage.  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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New Member
United States
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These things were 2 feet deep on the side of a hill in the middle of nowhere.. Was it common to fake them way back in history?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Did you dig it up yourself?
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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New Member
United States
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New Member
United States
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Was putting in post holes, three holes in a distance covering about 45 feet.. These were in the walls of the holes when we were cleaning them out. I assume there are more, just dug them up today.
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New Member
United States
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We found 14 of them in those 3 holes, by the way.
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Moderator
Australia
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They are not "old" counterfeits - mid-20th century at the earliest.
As for "how they got there", it's unknown. Perhaps someone was playing a "find the buried pirate treasure" game with metal detectors, and these were never found. Or perhaps someone bought a bunch of them thinking they were real, and on finding they were fake they threw them away somewhere where no-one would ever find them.
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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Can you provide a picture of the edge?
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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New Member
United States
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I left them with the land owner, but I can get back out there in a day or two and get more pictures.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Mid-20TH C junk pieces of base metal alloy.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sniff. I smell a rat. Either the "post holes" were salted or the whole story is bogus. There is no way they were found in three separate post holes spread over 45 feet! '  ' |
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New Member
United States
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Modern fake. Ferdinand VI wasn't king until 1746 and no, the Mexico City mint didn't randomly choose their date dies, although modern Chinese counterfeiters do. Also, the border is wrong on the reverse as well as several other design elements. I'd also be willing to bet that when the coins are reexamined, you will find that the edge is reeded, which is also incorrect.
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Posted 11/12/2023 7:29 pm
