I agree, it's a cast fake. Made of base metal with a silver wash. The silver wash is what is coming off.
Now here are pics of a couple of different 1765 M 8 reales. You can plainly see portions of the legends that intrude into the denticles, as well...
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Actually, they aren't. The edge design was always added after the coin was struck. Yes and no. Because the edge design was added post strike it...
All quite true. That said, I would trust the realized prices on Heritage way, way, before I would ever trust the realized prices on ebay ! Why ?...
The underlined and bold sentence in your comments are where we disagree. It simply isn't true. In the first place, just because there is one...
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I have all sorts of doubts about you. And I suspect I am not alone in that ;)
Can't. There won't be any that meet my standards :D
Ehhhh - I'd buy it but I wouldn't be happy unless I could have two of 'em ;)
There is no answer, but there's a lot of guesses. Some of those guesses are even educated. And some are not. The US Mint tried to claim that...
I'm amazed anybody remembers him !
Actually it has been done before. Which is why I mentioned the Millennium sets. Only then it was an ASE struck at West Point, but without a W mint...
The reverse will be what holds the grade down, the horizontal shield lines are worn flat. That alone would make me say VF35. But I expect a TPG...
Agreed. But don't think that a problem, any problem, only drops the grade down 1. Depending on severity of the problem the grade may drop by 3 or...
I'll be there.
In a nutshell, yes, definitely. More than anything it's the public's perception of any given coin that drives its value. Even this thread...
But you are ignoring one, very major, thing here. Conserving a coin is not a case of somebody doing their job right. They can do everything...
Boy if there's anything wrong with it Matt, other than having been harshly cleaned, I sure can't see what it is. I've compared it, carefully, with...
I too would have to go along with the AU grade.
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