I just got my first of the above and I think it's just great! While the condition is well less than VF it's got great patina (something I value) and a very few chopmarks as well.
As far as I can tell it's an 1802 8 Reale, Carlos 4, Mo mint.
My question is why is it not perfectly round, nor perfectly flat? The edging is uneven as well.
Is this normal for this coin and this era? I want to assume so as I'm guessing very late 18th century and very early 19th century Spanish colonial coinings could be less than perfectly round and flat.
What say you? Thanks in advance, Eric G.
Yes, I know that. Depending on where you measure it is exactly 39mm, as the page states. But, measuring elsewhere it's .5mm larger. It is heavily worn and may have been slightly bent at some point. Does that explain it or was the minting process 200+ years ago in the less technologically advanced colonies an imprecise process?
