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<p>[QUOTE="Honolulu Dick, post: 931151, member: 24745"]Your 1910 Caballito is absolutely stunning. Would like to know more about the rider. Is that Libertas, what are the branches in her right hand and what is in her upraised left hand?</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, among my Mexican silver, my favorite is Mexico City mint colonial cob coin. A piece of eight [8-reales] circa: 1598-1617. It's old enough that the silver is tarnished to a deeply blackened tone. Therefore, I don't hesitate to hold it in my palm and delight in the feel of its heft, its tarnished metallic odor and admire how it survived the ravages of time. Being a hand-struck cob, it is a coin having starkly crude beauty. It's a keeper![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Honolulu Dick, post: 931151, member: 24745"]Your 1910 Caballito is absolutely stunning. Would like to know more about the rider. Is that Libertas, what are the branches in her right hand and what is in her upraised left hand? BTW, among my Mexican silver, my favorite is Mexico City mint colonial cob coin. A piece of eight [8-reales] circa: 1598-1617. It's old enough that the silver is tarnished to a deeply blackened tone. Therefore, I don't hesitate to hold it in my palm and delight in the feel of its heft, its tarnished metallic odor and admire how it survived the ravages of time. Being a hand-struck cob, it is a coin having starkly crude beauty. It's a keeper![/QUOTE]
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