There doesn't seem to be anything in the literature on this countermark until modern times. Also it doesn't make any sense for the communists to...
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l love older Brazilian coin designs. The 1924 2000 reis is 50% silver, but they end up looking bronze colored after they have lot of circulation...
I would say a good fake is hard to spot regardless of when the original was made. Counterfeiters use many methods to artificially age the surfaces...
That's not too bad though. At present, my IG timeline is just booty, booty and more booty. The Tumblr feed is even worse.
Thanks for these bits of information. It's rare to get a first hand account of how some coins are viewed in their home countries. :)
I'm on IG as well, have been looking for some decent numismatic related pages, but haven't found much
I'm also on the forum where you moderate. I only hang around the foreign coin areas of that forum, so can't speak for the rest of it... but, after...
I was thinking more like putting a bunch of coins in a bag with many other coins, and swashing them back and forth. Would be annoying to do...
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