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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 25831616, member: 110226&quot;]Here are two coins for 1713, both from Mexico City.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, here&#039;s a coin that I have paraded out several times before, purchased 34 years ago at the Long Beach Coin Expo.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Mexico, Philip V, 8 escudos, 1713 J.</b></p><p><b>KM 57.1</b></p><p><b>26.96 grams&nbsp; </b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1647187[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Mexico, Philip V, 8 reales, 1713 J.</b></p><p><b>KM 47</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is not from the 1715 Fleet.&nbsp; Instead it journeyed east, evidenced by the chopmarks on both side.&nbsp; The elongated shape of the flan is quite typical for the silver coinage of this period.&nbsp; It seems that more care was taken to assure that the flans for the gold coinage were rounder.&nbsp; The gold cob actually shows signs of hammering done after minting, creating beveled edge surfaces on both sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1647188[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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