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<p>[QUOTE="Tanner, post: 963482, member: 26819"]I know I'm coming into this a bit late, but would like to add a couple observations: Speaking just of the ability to date & place the piece without a visible date or mint mark, you would still have 2 points in your favor- The cross design is called Florenzada, and was only used on coinage minted in Mexico City, and the shield on the obverse shows three fleur-de-lis in the center; this shield design appeared first in 1700. The weight, too, would be within the realm for a genuine cob 4 reales. Based thus, and without any accompanying certification making it a 'salvage' coin (from any shipwreck), the value would be in the $35-60 range. Certified as a salvage piece- $100 and up, depending somewhat on what wreck it was from. However, in all my years of diving, travel and associations close to various Spanish shipwreck salvors in the Caribbean and Central America never have I seen a genuine coin defaced by the direct soldering or creation of a loop such as this one shows so it could be worn; to anyone in that field this would be total sacrilege, and never, ever done. Because of this feature, I would strongly suspect that what you have is actually a replica piece rather than genuine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tanner, post: 963482, member: 26819"]I know I'm coming into this a bit late, but would like to add a couple observations: Speaking just of the ability to date & place the piece without a visible date or mint mark, you would still have 2 points in your favor- The cross design is called Florenzada, and was only used on coinage minted in Mexico City, and the shield on the obverse shows three fleur-de-lis in the center; this shield design appeared first in 1700. The weight, too, would be within the realm for a genuine cob 4 reales. Based thus, and without any accompanying certification making it a 'salvage' coin (from any shipwreck), the value would be in the $35-60 range. Certified as a salvage piece- $100 and up, depending somewhat on what wreck it was from. However, in all my years of diving, travel and associations close to various Spanish shipwreck salvors in the Caribbean and Central America never have I seen a genuine coin defaced by the direct soldering or creation of a loop such as this one shows so it could be worn; to anyone in that field this would be total sacrilege, and never, ever done. Because of this feature, I would strongly suspect that what you have is actually a replica piece rather than genuine.[/QUOTE]
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