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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 41193, member: 112"]I'm not sure I really understand some of your comments - perhaps I'm misunderstanding. But you are correct, there are a great many fake examples of Spanish colonial coins. There are also a great many authentic examples of both the cob type and the columnarios. But neither one is really more rare than the other - it all depends on the particular coin. And yes some of them can be quite expensive and some of them are not. In a VF grade they can range in value from $25 to several thousand dpending on what coin it is. But don't ever think that just because a coin has seen use or is circulated that it is authentic. Nothing could be further from the truth. For many of the contemporary counterfeit Spanish colonial coins did indeed circulate - and they circulated quite well. And many, if not most, of the counterfeits were made with dies or castings that were produced from authentic circulated coins. H.Morris - The coin you posted about is not a fake or a counterfeit - it's not even a coin. It's a trinket of modern manufacture that is sold to tourists in the Caribbean and amusement parks. They are not sold as genuine items and no one except the children pretends they are.[/QUOTE]