~1/2 Mexican 1737 8 Reales Dug in Western NC!

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You actually dug that up,amazing find!!!now find the other halfgood luck. @paddyman98 found any Spanish colonial coinage yet.

 

A sad way to get 4 bits.
J.T.

 

A pretty standard way at the time, wasn't it?

 

I actually think it’s a contemporary counterfeit now, someone on reddit pointed it out. Rang at a 30-31 on the simplex+. Patina doesn’t make any sense for silver either

 

kind of a bummer but still a cool find.

 

Definitely, I almost lean towards thinking it’s cooler. I’ve collected 5 or so contemporary counterfeits but this is by far the oldest