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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 96569, member: 112&quot;]First of all my apologies for not welcoming you - Welcome !!</p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn&#039;t throw it away - by all means, give it to your grandson. But give it to him with an explanation that it is a fake. By doing so you pass on something that will be of much greater value to the boy - knowledge. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can readily understand the desire to pass our love for the hobby on to our descendants, along with the coins we have acquired over the years. But all too often we neglect to also pass on the knowledge that goes with it. For with the knoweldge can come a greater understanding of the coins and hopefully instill a lifelong desire to increase that knowledge in order to avoid making the same mistakes that our forebears made.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I might suggest - if possible, have your grandson sit down with you at the computer and show him this thread. Below are pictures of a genuine coin of the same type - from a different mint &amp; year, but the very same design. Point out to him the differences bewteen the coin you have and the one pictured here. Look closely at the details of the design on both. The similarities are there - but with close inspection the differences are glaring. </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps doing something like this can be yet another way for you and your grandson to share time together. And at the same time, prepare him for the world to come.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spanish%20Colonial/1822%208%20reale%20obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spanish%20Colonial/1822%208%20reale%20rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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