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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ruslatin, post: 2900620, member: 75013&quot;]Melgarejo was a particularly cruel and stupid brute.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1836 Rosas piece you show (CJ-9) is particularly interesting.&nbsp; La Rioja had pretty much abandoned the &quot;soles&quot; name and reverted to &quot;reales&quot; by that time (why?).&nbsp; The reverse says &quot;8S&quot; which could mean &quot;8 Soles&quot; but that seems unlikely to me.&nbsp; I think it is probably a silver strike from pattern dies originally intended for a gold &quot;8 eScudos&quot; (or &quot;Scudos&quot;) coin, but I could easily be wrong on that point.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1840 Rebel Peso and the 1815 8 Soles (S/R variety) you showed earlier in this thread are both particularly impressive coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>With respect to the coins being undervalued, for someone accustomed to US or Canadian coin prices, just about everything else in world coins looks cheap.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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