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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Krasnaya Vityaz, post: 109927, member: 1791&quot;]These are interesting, but perhaps never identifiable, I have a Mexican 2 Reales coin from 1773 which has a large P stamped on it, I have looked through the catalogs trying to find it with Phillipines, Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania etc, but so far it&#039;s identity remains a mystery.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is possible that some local merchant either in Britain or in the early American colonies marked said piece to keep it in circulation and try to keep it within their locale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another theory that comes to mind is that it could have been made into some sort of crude farm pickers check, these were not uncommon in Britain during 16th-19th centuries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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