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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4005048, member: 24314&quot;]GDJMSP, posted: &quot;I can see where that could be used as an indicator but I&#039;ve seen quite a few examples where there were variations in the same letters on the same coin. So it <i><span style="color: #b30000">doesn&#039;t seem like it would be a definitive indicator. </span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Matching punch styles of the letters and numerals was one of the best ways to detect a counterfeit back in the day as the usual counterfeits back then that were copied from a genuine coin (with matching punches) were crude by today&#039;s standards.&nbsp; Now that counterfeit technology has been able to produce excellent fakes that easily duplicate details of style - this <i><span style="color: #b30000">doesn&#039;t seem like it would be a definitive indicator anymore.</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>GDJMSP, posted:&nbsp; &quot;It&#039;s pretty much normal for the castles to have missing towers, and or corners of the tower bases, on various denominations. They get cut off by the center shield.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually, less so on any 8 Reales as I recall.&nbsp; Additionally, AFAIK the castles were put into the die with the same punch also.</p><p><br /></p><p>A problem we have is that these coins were not a specialty of most TPGS authenticators.&nbsp; Lots of contemporary C/F&#039;s are on the market too.&nbsp; I feel that a day of reckoning is in our future as more of these coins are analyzed for their metals and trace elements.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the moment, the old standby of matching defects on fake coins still works.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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