Spain Spanish Cob for Tourists (Counterfeit)
Connie sent us these pictures of her mystery coin. It is a puzzle, because it has some features of old Spanish colonial coins, such as the Jerusalem cross and pillars, but the other squigglies and beads are foreign to genuine coins.
Fortunately for CoinQuest, there are real experts on such material, and the ones over at ForumAncientCoins.com shed light on Connie's puzzle. Rick2 at ForumAncients said
It's a copy (very badly made) of a Spanish piece of 8 reales struck in South America. It was probably struck for tourists.
so the value would be essentially zero.
If you compare Connie's coin with this genuine 8 reales from Bolivia dated 1688, you can see faint similarities, but nothing remotely close to an authentic Spanish colonial coin.
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Coin: 7055, Genre: Colonizers and Colonies, Timeline: Modern
Created (yyyymm): 201102, Last review: 201509
Appearance: Unusual or irregular shape Metallic brown Metallic yellow Dark metallic Letters: Latin
Years: sort: 1990, filter: 1948 to 2050
Image: ancient_spanish.jpg
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