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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25716885, member: 10461&quot;]WOW, congrats!&nbsp; Is this your first 1700s silver?</p><p><br /></p><p>That is NOT “4 bits”, which would be a much larger 4-reales piece.&nbsp; This is a half-real (so a “half a bit”, essentially, though I don’t think that terminology was used).&nbsp; Appears to be a Mexico City piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Down here in the South we find as much 1700s Spanish Colonial silver like that as we do pre-Civil War US silver.&nbsp; These Spanish coins were legal tender in the US up until 1857, so prior to the Civil War there were plenty of them in Americans’ pocket change.</p><p><br /></p><p>They circulated far and wide from their Central- and South American origin sites.&nbsp; All over the New World.&nbsp; And since Spanish silver circulated for more than a century in the US, they’re often found in quite worn condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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