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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jgenn, post: 4426974, member: 78525&quot;]If your scale is accurate, then the coin is not genuine.&nbsp; There is a mintmark on the coin -- M with small o above -- for the Mexico City mint, however it could not have been issued from the mint with so much missing weight.&nbsp; I suppose a genuine coin could lose that much weight by being drilled and refilled but it&#039;s much more likely to be a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>China imported 8 reales throughout the 19th century for their silver content so it might be a forgery intended for this bullion trade.&nbsp; Chinese assayers were wary enough to weigh coins and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Counterfeit-Portrait-Eight-Reales-real-Reales-dp-1500497177/dp/1500497177/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Counterfeit-Portrait-Eight-Reales-real-Reales-dp-1500497177/dp/1500497177/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=" rel="nofollow">Bob Gurney</a> speculates that they knew how to conduct specific gravity tests so it&#039;s unlikely that such a low weight coin could pass.&nbsp; Maybe it circulated elsewhere or maybe it&#039;s a recent forgery to fool collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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