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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26129843, member: 10461&quot;]I had a fella call me about a Spanish 8-reales cob he reportedly found metal detecting on the beach here.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the <i>Georgia</i> coast, not the Florida treasure beaches.&nbsp; Still, it could happen.&nbsp; I myself have dug <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-i-call-this-one-the-coin-1998.287817/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-i-call-this-one-the-coin-1998.287817/">a 17th century Spanish coin</a> here on Saint Simons Island.&nbsp; As have friends of mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the coin the fella brought to show me was, though resembling a cob 8-reales, the typical tourist fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;coin&quot; had bits of sand in the crevices, so maybe he really <i>did</i> find it on the beach.&nbsp; Stranger things have happened.&nbsp; (Or did he put the sand on there to make a fake story for the fake coin more convincing?&nbsp; Who knows.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess my point is, a coin could indeed have sat around in somebody&#039;s estate holdings, or been found metal detecting, or whatever the interesting backstory... and still be fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>At least the very polite person who posted the fake coin in the OP did not seem to have made the assumption that it was real.&nbsp; She(?) did say, &quot;I&#039;m <i>interested</i> to know <i>if</i> it is real&quot;, and not &quot;I know it is real&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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