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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8371091, member: 85693&quot;]Welcome to Coin Talk.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Those 1783-dated Mexico 8 reales are often from the wreck of the <i>El Cazador</i>.&nbsp; Many of these have been salvaged since its discovery in the 1980s.&nbsp; Thanks to salt water immersion, many of these are underweight.&nbsp; Almost all of them are dated 1783. </p><p><br /></p><p>But they have been faked too.&nbsp; And because the salt water-damaged ones have kind of &quot;soft&quot; features and are light in weight, they are especially easy to fake.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure about yours.&nbsp; If it is a fake, it is one of the better-done ones - the edges don&#039;t look obviously wrong to me.&nbsp; Others will have different, more expert opinions. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an <i>El Cazador</i> article via Coin Quest - there&#039;s lots of info on the web about these (and many for sale): </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=16531" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=16531" rel="nofollow">https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=16531</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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