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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1402719, member: 66&quot;]In the 1840&#039;s there were a lot of counterfeit 8 reales in circulation in the south and west.&nbsp; The refiner of the New Orleans mint even wrote a monograph on varieties of counterfeit 8 reales in common circulation in the New Orleans area around 1845.&nbsp; <i>A monograph of the silver dollar, good and bad: illustrated with facsimile figures of four hundred and twenty-five varieties of dollars, and eighty-seven varieties of half dollars, including the genuine, the low standard, and the counterfeit : giving their weight, quality and exact value, and enabling the inexperienced to detect those which are spurious</i>&nbsp; As you can seee from the title there were a LOT of varieties even back then and there have been another hundred years of counterfeits since then.&nbsp; (Although there were probably more back then when they were an actual circulation coin.)&nbsp; Original copies of the momagragh are very scarce and costly today, but it is available as a &quot;Print on demand&quot; for about $20.&nbsp; I have seen one though so I can&#039;t judge the quality of the reproduction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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