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<p>[QUOTE="Maxfli, post: 3662648, member: 69089"]Yeah, the weight discrepancy combined with the discoloration make the authenticity of this coin highly suspect, to say the least.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's the kind of token one might find in a souvenir shop in, oh, say, Vero Beach, Florida. From Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The 1715 Treasure Fleet was a Spanish treasure fleet returning from the New World to Spain. At two in the morning on Wednesday, July 31, 1715, seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba,<b> eleven of the twelve ships of this fleet were lost in a hurricane near present-day Vero Beach, Florida.</b></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Maxfli, post: 3662648, member: 69089"]Yeah, the weight discrepancy combined with the discoloration make the authenticity of this coin highly suspect, to say the least. It's the kind of token one might find in a souvenir shop in, oh, say, Vero Beach, Florida. From Wikipedia: [I]The 1715 Treasure Fleet was a Spanish treasure fleet returning from the New World to Spain. At two in the morning on Wednesday, July 31, 1715, seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba,[B] eleven of the twelve ships of this fleet were lost in a hurricane near present-day Vero Beach, Florida.[/B][/I][/QUOTE]
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