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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coinhunk, post: 432617, member: 15747&quot;]Thank you acanthite and handsometoad. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I&#039;m really learning now. I&#039;ll really wait for more opinion on the coin. Really doesn&#039;t matter if the verdict will be &quot;it&#039;s a counterfeit!&quot; hahaha</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly guys I purchased the coin just this morning at silver value. I visited a local melting shop looking for US-PI coins and found the 1817 coin with a bunch of mexican coins. I&#039;m also not familiar with mexican coins.&nbsp; The 1817 coin was new to me so I asked the owner if I could buy it (at silver bullion value of course). He had no idea what the coin was aside from it being &quot;silver&quot;, &quot;old&quot; and &quot;meltable&quot;.&nbsp; it was going to the melting pot anyways so he sold it for a few bucks. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; i&#039;m in the Philippines, btw.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins at the local melting shops usually (or almost always) come from the old folks who reside in remote areas in the province, and they don&#039;t have the ability or capacity to counterfeit coins,, muchso that they don&#039;t even have any knowledge about collectable coins and their value. If it&#039;s a genuine coin, surely it was brought by the Spaniards who have colonized the country in the 1800s and ended up in the hands of some who held on to them as souvenir. If its counterfeit, I don&#039;t know where it came from. Definitely from another country. China perhaps? And why land in a remote city in a remote province? Important forgeries should be found in the mainland and not sold for it&#039;s bullion value. hmmmmn One question, when did &quot;forgers&quot; start forgering such coins? How about the origin of the forgeries for Spanish coins? </p><p><br /></p><p>Wheew! again the verdict will come from you guys. I watch too many detective stories that&#039;s why I ask too many questions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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