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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;swhuck, post: 1250785, member: 21044&quot;]At a glance, they look OK. The weights are in the right ballpark, and a lot of Mexican coinage that wasn&#039;t made in Mexico City is pretty crude. The chopmark makes plenty of sense in context; 8 reales pieces were commonly used and popularly accepted as trade coinage. The rays appear to be a die clash. I&#039;m hardly an expert on these, to be sure, but I don&#039;t see any red flags.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I checked the Heritage Auction Archives. I found two of the Durango pieces. One was a CP which was clearly struck from a completely different pair of dies, but the other, a CP/CM, was from a set of dies that appears to be the same as your piece, up to and including the die break above PUBLI. <a href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=378&amp;lotNo=14056" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=378&amp;lotNo=14056" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=378&amp;lotNo=14056</a>. You can see an obvious trace of the underlying M on your piece immediately to the left of the P.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect your pieces are just fine; indeed, I think the 1867 Durango is probably well-struck for the issue if the piece I linked is any indication. I will, of course, gladly defer to someone who actually knows something about this series. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Prices from the 5th edition of Krause:</p><p><br /></p><p>1867 Durango CP/CM: 125 Fine, 250 VF (CP without the underlying CM is slightly more expensive)</p><p>1843 Guadalajara MC: 50 Fine, 100 VF</p><p>1858 Durango CP: Listed prices are less than bullion up to VF</p><p>1841 Zacatecas OM: Listed prices are less than bullion up to VF, and if silver goes up any more, that&#039;ll also be true for EF.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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