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<p>[QUOTE="jgenn, post: 3087646, member: 78525"]Be happy with your 8 reales. It has nice eye appeal and the <a href="http://images.pcgs.com/trueview/35205270" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://images.pcgs.com/trueview/35205270" rel="nofollow">TrueView</a> really shows off the obverse toning. [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] has answered about the mintage, but why do you care? Examples from this year are no more scarce than any other for this type. Yours was minted during the conflict for independence -- even so, the Potosí mint continued to churn out large quantities of 8 reales. Independence armies from Buenos Aires took over the mint in 1813 and 1815 to produce their own coins but as they were forced to retreat the Royalist issues started right back up. The last issues of this type were minted in 1825.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one 1822 PTS PJ 8 reales in my collection. It's an NGC certified AU-55 and I paid $169 in 2012.</p><p><br /></p><p>One interesting connection with your coin is that this type definitely circulated in the U.S. even through the Civil War. I've just acquired this obsolete bank note from the Corporation of Richmond Virginia issued on April 19th, 1861 and it has a very similar coin's reverse pictured as the example of one dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]778595[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jgenn, post: 3087646, member: 78525"]Be happy with your 8 reales. It has nice eye appeal and the [URL='http://images.pcgs.com/trueview/35205270']TrueView[/URL] really shows off the obverse toning. [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] has answered about the mintage, but why do you care? Examples from this year are no more scarce than any other for this type. Yours was minted during the conflict for independence -- even so, the Potosí mint continued to churn out large quantities of 8 reales. Independence armies from Buenos Aires took over the mint in 1813 and 1815 to produce their own coins but as they were forced to retreat the Royalist issues started right back up. The last issues of this type were minted in 1825. I have one 1822 PTS PJ 8 reales in my collection. It's an NGC certified AU-55 and I paid $169 in 2012. One interesting connection with your coin is that this type definitely circulated in the U.S. even through the Civil War. I've just acquired this obsolete bank note from the Corporation of Richmond Virginia issued on April 19th, 1861 and it has a very similar coin's reverse pictured as the example of one dollar. [ATTACH=full]778595[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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