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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 87807, member: 66&quot;]In the 1830&#039;s a semi-skilled laborer earned probably between 1 and 2 dollars a day.&nbsp; In Mexico the wages would have been even lower.&nbsp; A 8 reales would probably represent somewhere between 2 days to a weeks wages.&nbsp; In todays terms think of it as a coin with a face value of somewhere between 200 and 300 dollars.&nbsp; Worth while to counterfeit?&nbsp; You betcha.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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