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Hi, can you help me identifying this a coin? I found it in a very old cabinet. It is a fake or real coin? Thank you
28mm, 10.9 grams
Maybe this:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia55329.html
or could be an original coin. Is that second picture showing 26mm?
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
Quote: "ZacUK"​ Maybe this:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia55329.html
​ or could be an original coin. Is that second picture showing 26mm?
It is ​28mm
Incredibly small pictures, even when enlarged. Mostly background. The best I could do:
[28mm]
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
Guessing the 8 on the second picture makes it 8 Reales denomination,
and the other side with the cross looks like this from Bolivia - but different size:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces61928.html
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
Quote: "ZacUK"​ Guessing the 8 on the second picture makes it 8 Reales denomination,
​and the other side with the cross looks like this from Bolivia - but different size:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces61928.html
​Thank you.. and what do you mean now? It is a real coin?
Unsure. Looks real. Hoping another member can identify.
The 8 Reales coins I have seen are larger. Also - to help us -
please make more pictures as those show as small size.
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
Hi altogether,
Looks not good to me, the coin is to little to be a 8 Reales cob (weight would be nice to know!), and has some odd features, specialy on the pillar side (a second "8" at the bottom right?). If the coin is a real one, its not Potosi (Bolivia) but Lima (Peru), because of the form of the waves beneath the pillars and the "L" at the top let (which should be repeated un the place of the second "8".
Lets see what other members say and lets see the weight!
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Forgot to mention: the devise "Plus Ultra" in whatever one of it's many diferent variations crossing the pillars is not present .
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I send new better photos. Weight is 10.9 grams
Quote: "christianvl"​Forgot to mention: the devise "Plus Ultra" in whatever one of it's many diferent variations crossing the pillars is not present .
​Weight is 10.9 grams.. I sent new better photos.

Hi hannynka,

Going with more time through a catalogue, it seems to be that your coin “wants to be” a 8 Escudos piece from Lima.

Escudos were gold coins, yours is perhaps silver.  8 Escudos should weight aprox 27 gr, yours is completely underweight inspite of beeing 26 or 27 mm.

The “second 8” which I told you didn't fit into an 8 Reales cob, is part of the date in a Escudo cob: most probably 1708, if you consider the H of the assayer which is very crear above on  right

If your cob is a modern fake or one made in the 18th century, I can't tell.

Regards

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Thank you so much 

I appreciate your work :) 

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