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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3376853, member: 112"]What he's telling you Marc is that <b>all</b> the genuine Mexico 8 reales coins dated from 1732 to 1771 had the same design on them. </p><p><br /></p><p>What you have been told by the others is correct, what you have there is nothing more than a modern reproduction, and it's not even a reproduction of a genuine coin, it's merely a token, a novelty piece of some kind. Kind of like the one you see here - </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.winsociety.org/images/WINS_15yr_token_final.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was the co-designer of that token, it was issued in copper and silver versions as our coin club token. Over the years there have been many companies and organizations who have used designs similar to the Pillar Dollar. The one you posted and the one I posted are merely two of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3376853, member: 112"]What he's telling you Marc is that [B]all[/B] the genuine Mexico 8 reales coins dated from 1732 to 1771 had the same design on them. What you have been told by the others is correct, what you have there is nothing more than a modern reproduction, and it's not even a reproduction of a genuine coin, it's merely a token, a novelty piece of some kind. Kind of like the one you see here - [IMG]http://www.winsociety.org/images/WINS_15yr_token_final.jpg[/IMG] I was the co-designer of that token, it was issued in copper and silver versions as our coin club token. Over the years there have been many companies and organizations who have used designs similar to the Pillar Dollar. The one you posted and the one I posted are merely two of them.[/QUOTE]
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