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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 24498524, member: 110226&quot;]Interesting coin.&nbsp; I must say that the &quot;III&quot; that would apply to Charles III (1759-1788) of Spain doesn&#039;t make sense combined with at date of 1813 or 1815 as the coin&#039;s original date, unless the date is a countermark applied to the coin while in circulation, which makes sense. </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the countermark was intended to revalue the coin or certify its circulation by a local authority during the war for independence (1810-1821).&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Yet another possibility is that your coin was originally a cast of a royalist 8 reales that was later over struck at a royalist mint, possibly Chihuahua or Durango.&nbsp; This is likely the best possibility.&nbsp; KM mentions that these mints overstruck cast coins during the war of independence, so I think of the two possibilities, I would lean in this direction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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