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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 8056523, member: 96174&quot;]As my Scottish grandfather used to say, &quot;I hae me doots&quot; (I have my doubts) about this 8 reales. I have no personal experience of coins from shipwrecks and their loss of weight, so its current reduced weight could perhaps be explained away.</p><p>On the other hand, I am pretty certain that it can&#039;t be from Mexico. The letter O (if it is an O) on the left of the shield is much too low down. There isn&#039;t room for the M below the O and then the assayer&#039;s mark below the M</p><p>So could the O be the assayer &#039;s mark below the Mexico mintmarkO M which are What is more, there wasn&#039;t an assayer in Mexico whose mark was an O or a C or G</p><p>on the[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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