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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1143430, member: 26302&quot;]I have seen these by the thousands, and own a hundred or so. They are effectively &quot;pot metal&quot; so fairly heavy in the hand but not as heavy as silver. I doubt these are silver since they are not very good fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw Ripley, I have about 15 of those &quot;Mexican&quot; coins as well, (I mean the fake ones, I have lots of real ones also). The Chinese have been faking these much longer than US coins, since Mexican 8 pesos were the default trade coin in China. When the Mexicans stopped making the 8 reals, that is when Britain and the US started minting the trade dollars to facilitate trade with China. This is probably why the Mexican fakes are closer to the real coin, since many Chinese are familiar with this coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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