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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 508610, member: 112&quot;]Wesley - the 4 reales coin is so badly deteriorated that I can not even come close to identifying it for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 8 reales however I do believe is indeed from the Potosi mint. It was struck in 1621 and can be identified most easily by the transposed castles and lions. using the Sewall Menzel book it is a Type Vb (Po-192). The silver fineness was 0.935 and the correct weight range for these coins was from 26.1gm to 27.4gm.</p><p><br /></p><p>As has been said already, the value of these coins has a lot more to do with where they came from than the coins themselves. Given that the coins are in such poor condition and grossly underweight I doubt their value would even be a couple hundred dollars combined - if that.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, you may be able to get a better idea if you contact Dan Sedwick as I suggested yesterday. You can do that thru his web site - <a href="http://www.sedwickcoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sedwickcoins.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sedwickcoins.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You would probably have to send the coins to him though. He is completely, 100% trustworthy. And we even have a member here on the forum who works for him.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I still say your best bet would be to offer these for sale on ebay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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