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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 24808912, member: 110226&quot;]Thanks!&nbsp; Yes, the obverse legend ends with GRATI followed by a square.&nbsp; That&#039;s the first time I have seen this anomaly, but it could be more common; with the uneven strikes and missing legends on virtually of these coins it is hard to say.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, Richard Long listed this coin in one of his 1982 auctions (he ran two each year).&nbsp; I have the catalog in a wicker chest, so I&#039;ll try to locate it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1982 I was pretty new in collecting hammer and mill struck coins and my knowledge of the fakes was scant.&nbsp; Back then there weren&#039;t many sources to research fakes.&nbsp; Calbeto&#039;s two-volume reference comes to mind.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was really attracted to this coin&#039;s excellent strike, despite the fact that it one of the more &quot;common&quot; Philip III cobs from Mexico, and the bidding was quite stiff, even back then, with an $850 closing price.&nbsp; The brothers in Mexico City who made the copies in the early 1960s did a pretty good job casting them, but they do have tell tale signs of casting, such as the filled flan cracks and lower weight, many times significantly lower, and pretty low silver content.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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