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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 186479, member: 283&quot;]This fake is the right weight, but what you can&#039;t tell from the image is that it is slightly oversized. If it were the right size it would be the typical 2 grams or so underweight. So weight on its own isn&#039;t always a fool proof indicator. You need to take actual size into consideration too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, this `fake&#039; is also silver....just not quite the .917 that it should be. I wouldn&#039;t expect most of you to tell that just from the image either, but I know that some of you could.</p><p><br /></p><p>THE main giveaway (IMHO) requires that you know a little bit about Mexico 8 reales and my first question would be `who or what does the HJ initials in the reverse legend refer to? They don&#039;t appear on colonial Mexican coinage until 1809.....yet this coin has them dated 1792&#039;. While there is always a possibility that an obverse 1792 somehow managed to muled with a reverse 1809 it should be enough of a discrepancy to ring alarm bells big time.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a couple of very dubious design characteristics one of which includes the look on Charlies face...etc&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ian</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A good example of why you should buy the book before you buy the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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