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Message:: [QUOTE="Pablo Soy, post: 478958, member: 16504"]It is a Mexico HALF Real coin. I suggest you check lots 762 & 763 at <a href="http://www.aureo.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aureo.com" rel="nofollow">www.aureo.com</a>. There you will see that ! real coins have 1R, while 1/2 reales only have an R So not ONE but only half, and it is really as Satootoko said no big deal. Worth about 20 to 30 euros, still interesting enough. Aidan Work was right about Mexico not minting for Spain, specially in that year of 1809. We were having our own war of independence from the French, with a King prisioner in France and José Napoleón (Brother of Napoleón Bonaparte) ruling or trying to. Spain was struggling for its own independence and the the colonies were about to start their own one in 1810. The Virreinato de México colonies still didn´t have the right picture of the king, so to make him look strong they depicted an imaginary bust with an armour! That did not last long, by 1811 and with an independence war going on in Mexico and all the way down to Patagonia, all over the Americas ("las Indias"), they showed a drapped bust of the king. The letters T.H. are the assayers initials; I don`t remember the "T", probably Tomás Something, but the "H" is for Henrique Buenaventura. So the coin is not much itself, but tells some history. And it looks authentic to me.Enjoy it.Pablo[/QUOTE]