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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 4181055, member: 96174&quot;]I know absolutely nothing about chopmarks, but this 8R looks genuine to me.</p><p>The initials I. J are correct for this coin&#039;s date, they correspond to the two assayers at Lima between 1789 and 1805, Ignacio Zenon Galvez and Juan Martinez de Roxas.</p><p>I wouldn&#039;t worry too much about the diameter which can always have a very slight difference, or even a huge one: think of cobs!</p><p>&nbsp;The one thing that the assayers had to get 100% right was the weight, but after a couple of hundred years any coin will have lost weight. I have had an 8R from&nbsp; Lima dated 1789 which weighed 27.11 gms and one from Mexico, same date which weighed 26.98 gms.</p><p>Any weight of say less than 26.5gms would be seriously suspect[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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