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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8191149, member: 85693"]The edges have the "overlap" and like they are supposed to; weights are okay too. I'm not expert, but I have been handling these for 30+ years (back when they were $25 or less chopped!) and these two seemed okay - I especially liked seeing the overdate, which seems an unlikely detail for a low grade non-cast fake (and these are struck, not cast). Again, I'm no expert (and too lazy and inept to do a specific gravity test). </p><p><br /></p><p>As for eBay "red flags," there are a host of fakes out there for sure (and I have gotten burned in the past). On the other hand, some sellers put things in odd categories. In the case of the two boxed 8 reales I listed above, rather than being in Colonial Mexico, they were in Colonial USA, which probably reduced the number of eyeballs seeing them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8191149, member: 85693"]The edges have the "overlap" and like they are supposed to; weights are okay too. I'm not expert, but I have been handling these for 30+ years (back when they were $25 or less chopped!) and these two seemed okay - I especially liked seeing the overdate, which seems an unlikely detail for a low grade non-cast fake (and these are struck, not cast). Again, I'm no expert (and too lazy and inept to do a specific gravity test). As for eBay "red flags," there are a host of fakes out there for sure (and I have gotten burned in the past). On the other hand, some sellers put things in odd categories. In the case of the two boxed 8 reales I listed above, rather than being in Colonial Mexico, they were in Colonial USA, which probably reduced the number of eyeballs seeing them.[/QUOTE]
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