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wrk4lvg Pillar of the Community United States 756 Posts	Posted 09/17/2006 08:14 am One is gold, the other silver. Still practicing, so bare w/ me. http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...hp?pos=-2204 http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...hp?pos=-2205 http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...hp?pos=-2206 Edited by Forum Dad to fix links Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 09/17/2006 09:01 am Those links may not always work; you should copy-and-paste the link given at the bottom of your Image Gallery page to link directly to the pictures. But they worked for me. Let's see, the "gold" one is the normal design for a Spanish Colonial "dubloon" or 8 escudo piece e.g. Peru KM#38.2; 1712 I believe is the date. Real ones CV at over $5000 in that condition. The "silver" one looks more-or less identical, and I don't think it should - in most cases, the dies for silver "pieces of eight" looked distinctly different to the gold ones. Needless to say, coins like these have been extensively copied down through the years, from contemporary counterfeits to theme parks trying to make a buck from their links to all things "pirate". I'm no expert, but the bubbly surface on the gold one says to me either "shipwreck coin" or "cheap casting". 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 Report this Post to the Staff
wrk4lvg Pillar of the Community United States 756 Posts	Posted 09/17/2006 09:43 am That's what I thought. Just can't figure out where my grandfather would have picked these up from. Ultra conservative he was. So parties and parades or theme parks were never in his list of things to do. They sell these things on TV? Report this Post to the Staff
bobby131313 Forum Dad United States 24154 Posts	Posted 09/17/2006 11:05 am Jayson, I fixed the links for you. As Sap said, be sure to use the link down in the information section. Your links were only still working because you hadn't added any more images to that album. Shop CCF Members on eBay. Report this Post to the Staff
wrk4lvg Pillar of the Community United States 756 Posts	Posted 09/17/2006 4:32 pm Sorry about that. Thanks for fixing me right up. Report this Post to the Staff
bobby131313 Forum Dad United States 24154 Posts	Posted 09/17/2006 5:04 pm quote: Sorry about that. No need to apologize. I'll admit it's a strange setup, I'm working on a fix so that the permanent url is in the address bar. Shop CCF Members on eBay. Report this Post to the Staff
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