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Please help ID these coins. I have an idea of what they might be, but I would like to get some opinions. Please be as specific as you can! Thx in...
Yeah...me too kinda. It's like you order and pay for a bacon cheeseburger and instead you get a cheese and pickle sandwich.
With only one mint to supply a nation of 80~100 million people, quality control takes a back seat to quantity.
This is a die deterioration doubling, which is most common with Mexican coinage that is minted at the Mexico City Mint.
Awesome...simply awesome!
Not republican, but nice coins anyway. I think I would have preferred Brazil to have remained a monarchy. [ATTACH][ATTACH] [ATTACH][ATTACH]
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There's a right way to spell "Brazil" as in this coin below. [ATTACH][ATTACH] And a wrong way to spell "Brazil" as in the coin below....
The Spanish "Peseta" sounds funny to me. In the northern part of Jalisco, Mexico (Los Altos region) the term "me cae peseta(s)" roughly means "I...
Sorry to say old man, but if a magnet sticks to the coin it's definitely a fake. It's probably made of steel and worth about a buck as a souvenir.
I carn't believe I read this entire bloody post. I just wasted 20 minutes of me life that I carn't get back! :vanish: I could've had a Saturday...
My guide to Mexican coins by Buttrey & Hubbard has the 5c of 1893 CaM (Chihuahua Mint & Assayer's Initials) and a mintage of 133,020
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