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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 77833, member: 112"]OK - here's a couple of examples of an 8 reales with the King George countermark - </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.stacks.com/viewlot.php?auction=CG0705&lot=852&auclink=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zdGFja3MuY29tL3ZpZXdjYXQucGhwP2F1Y3Rpb249Q0cwNzA1JmhlYWRpbmc9ODgxNiZoZWFkaW5nbGV2ZWw9MyNsb3Q4NTI%3D&PHPSESSID=ca03cfa9f7add81de0308bab423c1417" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stacks.com/viewlot.php?auction=CG0705&lot=852&auclink=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zdGFja3MuY29tL3ZpZXdjYXQucGhwP2F1Y3Rpb249Q0cwNzA1JmhlYWRpbmc9ODgxNiZoZWFkaW5nbGV2ZWw9MyNsb3Q4NTI%3D&PHPSESSID=ca03cfa9f7add81de0308bab423c1417" rel="nofollow">Link 1</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.stacks.com/viewlot.php?auction=CG0705&lot=853&auclink=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zdGFja3MuY29tL3ZpZXdjYXQucGhwP2F1Y3Rpb249Q0cwNzA1JmhlYWRpbmc9ODgxNiZoZWFkaW5nbGV2ZWw9MyNsb3Q4NTM%3D&PHPSESSID=ca03cfa9f7add81de0308bab423c1417" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stacks.com/viewlot.php?auction=CG0705&lot=853&auclink=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zdGFja3MuY29tL3ZpZXdjYXQucGhwP2F1Y3Rpb249Q0cwNzA1JmhlYWRpbmc9ODgxNiZoZWFkaW5nbGV2ZWw9MyNsb3Q4NTM%3D&PHPSESSID=ca03cfa9f7add81de0308bab423c1417" rel="nofollow">Link 2</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now then, the Brits decided to do this because the coins were circulating in England and widely being accepted as equal value for British coins of similar weight. But the silver finess in the Spanish coins was slightly less than that of British coins - and the King didn't much like them being used in his country either. So - the countermark. The coins value was also decreased in Britain.</p><p><br /></p><p>The saying in use at the time about these coins was - "the head of a fool on the neck of an ass ".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 77833, member: 112"]OK - here's a couple of examples of an 8 reales with the King George countermark - [URL=http://www.stacks.com/viewlot.php?auction=CG0705&lot=852&auclink=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zdGFja3MuY29tL3ZpZXdjYXQucGhwP2F1Y3Rpb249Q0cwNzA1JmhlYWRpbmc9ODgxNiZoZWFkaW5nbGV2ZWw9MyNsb3Q4NTI%3D&PHPSESSID=ca03cfa9f7add81de0308bab423c1417]Link 1[/URL] [URL=http://www.stacks.com/viewlot.php?auction=CG0705&lot=853&auclink=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zdGFja3MuY29tL3ZpZXdjYXQucGhwP2F1Y3Rpb249Q0cwNzA1JmhlYWRpbmc9ODgxNiZoZWFkaW5nbGV2ZWw9MyNsb3Q4NTM%3D&PHPSESSID=ca03cfa9f7add81de0308bab423c1417]Link 2[/URL] Now then, the Brits decided to do this because the coins were circulating in England and widely being accepted as equal value for British coins of similar weight. But the silver finess in the Spanish coins was slightly less than that of British coins - and the King didn't much like them being used in his country either. So - the countermark. The coins value was also decreased in Britain. The saying in use at the time about these coins was - "the head of a fool on the neck of an ass ".[/QUOTE]
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