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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pablo Soy, post: 478575, member: 16504&quot;]<b>What you have is a 8 reales from Zacatecas</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Hola, It is a Zacatecas 8 reales coin. It shows the bust of Fernando VII (Ferdinand the 7th) of Spain, who ruled between 1808 to 1833. Managed to loose México, central America and South American Colonies and became one of the worst kings in Spain ever.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Zacatecas mint was one of the emergency mints during Mexico&#039;s war of independence (1809 to 1821). They had no pictures of the king, didn´t have proper machinery, specialists or even knowledges, so they did what they could. Most of the coins in Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and even Guadalaxara where really poorly struck, defectuous and most of them didn&#039;t even depict the real face of the king. Not to mention Valladolid&#039;s, Monclova, Zongolica and other mints, where beeing made of silver was about all the similarity to being a coin! An extremely interesting period from a Numismatic point of view. Very interesting coins in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is a rather well struck&nbsp; piece. It would rate close to VF+++ and has been cleaned, which is bad, but all together it looks pretty and sure would go up to 200 $ or 150 € here in Spain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck</p><p>Pablo</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>BY THE WAY, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT BEEING &quot;GOOD&quot;. WEIGHT AND SIZE, PLUS THE ALLTOGETHER LOOK OF IT... YOU CAN BE SURE, IT IS AUTHENTIC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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