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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 31569, member: 112&quot;]They are all copies ( except 1 - it appears to be a design made up by somebody ) of Spanish colonial coinage. It makes sense for them to be sold in Puerto Rico - tourist&#039;s novelty gifts, pirate treasure coins, pieces of eight etc etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are the same coins that got me started on world coinage about 30 yrs ago. And they got me started for the same reasons that tourist buy the copies. Only I was the one diving on the wreck of one of those Spanish galleons and finding the real coins&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s some pics of the real thing - </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spainish%20Colonial/1756%208%20reale%20obv.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spainish%20Colonial/1756%208%20reale%20obv.jpg" rel="nofollow">1756 8 reales obv</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spainish%20Colonial/1756%208%20reale%20rev.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spainish%20Colonial/1756%208%20reale%20rev.jpg" rel="nofollow">1756 8 reales rev</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spainish%20Colonial/1777-PTS%208%20reale%20obv.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spainish%20Colonial/1777-PTS%208%20reale%20obv.jpg" rel="nofollow">1777 8 reales obv</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spainish%20Colonial/1777-PTS%208%20reale%20rev.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Spainish%20Colonial/1777-PTS%208%20reale%20rev.jpg" rel="nofollow">1777 8 reales rev</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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