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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Colonialjohn, post: 2618626, member: 57741&quot;]In terms of the Escudos (Spanish) Coronado (spelling?) does a good basic treatment on these ... in some respect they are ALL scarce but more importantly they are not really desired in a brass or bronze alloy. Collectors of these mid-19thC Spanish Escudo coins know their desirability VERY WELL (i.e., virtually impossible for JPL to cherry-pick a European dealer on these) and the high desirability issues are normally for the almost full weight gold wash over platinum alloy issues which are ~ 90% the weight of the regal gold issues or weights listed in KM. I have come across some gold issues which were debased with copper so they are gold and copper. These range say ~75% the weight of a regal. Very tough and rare. This previously pictured issue is probably a brass or bronze alloy which the weight ~ 50% of regal gold weight. I have a few of these but avoid them after the 1-2 platinum or several debased gold issues in my collection as how many of these do you really need? Budget reasons ... to move onward and upward &lt;BG&gt;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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