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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 26130672, member: 110226&quot;]Here are three 8 reales cobs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Viceroy of Peru, Lima 8, reales, Philip IV, 1659, Assayer V.&nbsp; &quot;Star of Lima&quot; type.</p><p>KM 18.1</p><p>27.6 grams</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1667608[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>New Spain, Mexico, 8 reales, Philip III, (16)13 F.</p><p>KM 44.3</p><p>27.4 grams</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1667609[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Viceroy of Peru, Potosi 8, reales, Philip IV, 1665 E.</p><p>KM 21</p><p>26.6 grams</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1667612[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>To be sure there are other coins, modern and ancient that have ended up as pirate booty.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aside from the pirate angle, driven much by recent films, these hammer struck coins of Spanish colonial America were an integral part of Europe&#039;s economic development and world trade through the later part of the 18th century, when they were replaced finally by coins minted with screw press machines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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