I actually have no idea if my coins is real or not I just keep buying and buying even I was quite here I just love to collect all different coins. Everyone I need opinions please thank you all so much…
Very old and has a counter-stamp. I think it might just have been cut in half... Show a picture of the edge please.
This was common for them to be cut in circulation to make change, since a dollar was a lot of money. These coins circulated in the US until 1857. An 8 reale could be quartered twice to make 8 pieces (pieces of 8). Each piece was one reale (12.5 cents) with two pieces being a quarter dollar (the origin of 2 bits meaning a quarter).
Are you sure its copper? Look up Tortola C/S. The OP or another member can then ID the piece. All that's left is to authenticate it.
Its a piece of a heavily corroded silver reale it looked copper to me not corroded i guess not my mistake.
It’s real, somewhere around the early 1800’s I think. Probably silver. They were cut to make small change. That’s about all I can tell you on this so keep it safe.
The pirate festivals coin dealers were to expensive for my taste can't wait for tonight its going to be a blast even though I'm under-aged someone isn't im not worried about getting caught.
They circulated in the US long after 1857. The coinage act made them no longer legal tender for taxes and duties. And they could not be paid out. Foreign coins could be bought in at the mints, assay offices, and land offices but at bullion values and they were sent to be refined and recoined as Federal money. Prior to 1857, they would just have been paid back out. The coinage act (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=011/llsl011.db&recNum=184) specifically (de)valued the Mexican dollar, 2 reales as 20c instead of the previous 25c. The director of the mint was instructed to provide value equivalents for coins commonly in circulation. You can see these tables in the annual reports into the 191xs.