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Message:: [QUOTE="DEA, post: 7943471, member: 90140"]Wellllll . . . .  Not a whole lot more.  I think the intrinsic value (the silver) is about $18.  As for rarity, I'm not sure, but I can see from a glance through the KM catalog that there is a vast diversity in prices for most grades, which seems hugely dependent on rarity.  Since I'm unable to find this exact coin, I suspect it is quite rare - very rare - if it exists in reality at all.  And since it's magnetic, I'm leaning towards no reality - total fantasy and fake. This is a complicated run of coins - at least it is to me.  In the physical KM catalog, this eight-reales line of coins runs about four to five pages - minted in Alamos through Zacatecas.  I cannot find any with the mint marks of "Gs JS" anywhere.  I see a Ga, GC, and a Go - Guadalajara, Guadalupe y Calvo, and Guanajuato, respectively.  But as far as I can tell, there is no such thing as Gs for a mint mark.  There is a JS (assayer's initials) associated with the the Guadalajara Mint from 1885-95 - Jose S. Schiafino - but not otherwise that I can see. Oh, wait!  The Zacatecas Mint used JS for J.S. de Santa Ana from 1867-68 & 1876-86. I think, somecoinguy, I'd bring up this issue with the organizer of the coin show immediately, and let her know you are going to try to fix the problem yourself.  But bringing it to her attention now allows you to have an alibi for waiting a month, as well as a witness.[/QUOTE]