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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JLASS, post: 7775060, member: 122189&quot;]Good to know, and good points - thanks.&nbsp; I know NGC doesn’t guarantee anything, but I definitely trust their folks more than my own eye when it comes to spotting forgeries. I really like those 8 reales… sounds like yours is a pretty early New World cob and it’s fascinating to know when you hold a piece like that that it is made from some of the first “plata” brought from the mines of the Americas.&nbsp; I’m a diver and love wrecks, so I have a few coins in that genre myself (tiny 1/2 real cob, and milled 1 real and 8 reales from the 1715 fleet and El Cazador), none of which are as cool as the early full size cobs.&nbsp; I had a chance to visit the Colombian national museum a few years back and they had some pretty interesting displays with original minting equipment and coins…[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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