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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ASUtodd, post: 314985, member: 11382&quot;]I was down at my fav coin shop today, goin through the world coins, when I came across a sleeve/tray of coins that I had never looked through.&nbsp; I could tell the tray was heavy and that the coins were probably silver in nature so of course I got excited!&nbsp; In going through the coins I found two 8 reales and a 2 reales.&nbsp; I was going to purchase all three of these coins when I got to looking at one the reales that just didn&#039;t look right (I&#039;ll post pics of the other ones later).&nbsp; I flipped the coin over and found that the reverse of the coin appeared to have the silver peeling off of it.&nbsp; I looked at my friend (who is the dealer) and held up the coin (obverse toward him).&nbsp; I said, &quot;Hey what&#039;s this?&quot;.... he said that&#039;s an 8 Reale...I then flipped the coin over and handed to him and said, &quot;What&#039;s up with this coin?&quot;&nbsp; He looked at the coin and looked back at me and said, &quot;You can have it......&quot;&nbsp; I started to laugh.&nbsp; Apparently this coin wasn&#039;t suppossed to be out in the trays and I know this for fact because the 2x2 that it was in had none of their usual writing on it (their version of barcodes for record keeping).&nbsp; Also the 2x2 it was in was not the type that they normally use, it appeared much older and well, I can&#039;t explain it..... Anyways, I do think this coin is fake (although I have been wrong in the past!) because of the flaking silver and it appears to be iron or even copper underneath.&nbsp; Here are the pics.&nbsp; I just thought it was interesting because it looks like this coin was actually passed around back in the 1800&#039;s as currency.... Just something cool, plus I know that there are people out there that actually collect counterfeit coins so I figured they may like this one.</p><p>Todd</p><p><img src="http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/6/1/8/8/5/webimg/95120539_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/6/1/8/8/5/webimg/95120674_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/6/1/8/8/5/webimg/95120702_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/6/1/8/8/5/webimg/95120741_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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