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Thanks for posting the Mexican coins

I think that I got 4 blank planchets from Mexico which were intended to be the 500 Peso from the mid 1980s. The blanks meet the composition & weight spec for your 500 peso coin but the blanks are not polished as I would expect for proof manufacture. I think I still have two of those uncirculated blanks.

 

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Grand to have those planchets of the 4 Amigos. Here is an old 1 Realie and a 2 Realie.

 

Here are 2 nice Italian coins from the 19th century. 5 Lira King Victorio Emanuele II, and 20 gold Lira with good King Umberto on it. good old house of Savoy.

 

Hey Ripley, since you seem to know about these, can you tell me what this is? I think it looks like a 5. Is there a 5 reales coin? The year is 1879.

 

Hi Hidden, without it in hand its hard to tell. If its a wee bit smaller than a Morgan silver dollar its a 8 realies, minted in Guanajuato (Go).
The top 2 of mine were also minted in Guanajuato, the bottom one at the Alamos mint.

 

The Mexican Liberty cap also came in the Peso.

Mexico City mint.

 

Do they have coins in Africa ?

 

Ripley, do you know what all the letters and numbers mean? Maybe if I knew what they signified it would help. The number before the letter R on mine is either a 5, 6 or 8.

 

Real niceones too. Some Africans.

 

OK I will give it a shot.
Reading left to right.
8R means 8 Realies
Z - indicates the mint, in this case Zacatetas
Next the year - 1888
Next - TZ the initals of the engraver at the mint.
Hope this helps. :smile

 

Now this I like … looks completely original …. Congrads

 

View attachment 115108 View attachment 115109 Ode to 1888 Mexican style.

 

Ode to 1888 continued....

 

Republic of Haiti.
25 gurdes 1973, proof.

 

France.
100 francs 1991, silver, proof.

 

Haiti 1905.

 

Piedford

 

Haiti & Dominicana.

 

Dominica & France (2nd Republic)

 

Here is a DO mint mark from the Durango, with the assayer’s initials JP Dated 1881
Usually described as “8 Reale 1881 DoJP”