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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rick, post: 105124, member: 1235&quot;]There is technically nothing wrong with this auction that I can see. I agree with GD that it looks funny, but it&#039;s possible to look that funny after being obliterated by more than two dozen chinese chopmarks.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These is no real difference between an 8 reale and an american dollar, as the seller is using it... it&#039;s more a matter of jargon, but it has STRONG roots in the development of the American Dollar. 2 bits was 25 cents and based off of 2 reales, so 8 bits was equal to the dollar - and accepted in common trade AS a dollar.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Of course his coin is worth significantly less than the opening bid, but that ain&#039;t illegal, just unreasonable...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The only problem that I see is that the coin discriptions seems to imply that it circulated in the US, and while the 8 reales did circulate in the early US, this particular coin obviously was used in Asia and probably never saw US soil until it was obsolete for circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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