Buyers BEWARE from ASIAN sellers. This sellers are selling counterfeit (FAKE) coins on E-bay as genuine, some of the fake coins are: Mexican 8,4, and 2 reales, Peru 8,4, and 2 reales Guatemala 8, 4, and 2...
Aside from all the questionable 8 Reales of all dates coming from overseas , the 1760 Mexico City Carlos III is a problem coin. It was copied in large numbers over 40 years ago in the U.S.A.. So unlike the...
There are a couple of things that come to mind when I see the seemingly endless supply of 8 Reale coins appearing on e.bay , usually from the same group of dealers. Firstly I recall a television documentary...
It is hard to detect many of the fakes and copies listed these days. One easy one is the 1776 "FF" Mexico city 8 reales. To start , all the 8 reales of that time were minted with a Mint Mark and Assayers...
JANUARY 2009 UPDATE SPECIAL NOTE Since my guides are no longer featured by eBay, future updates will be published no more frequently than quarterly, and perhaps as infrequently as annually. However,...
almost all of the rare Mexican 8 reales I have seen listed on the Chinese sites have been altered. Some of them are very hard to detect even after you have the coin in hand. I have bought several of these...
My collecting began from purchasing faked coin. Probably, the suspicions about authenticity of 1741's '"pieces of eight" directed my mind to the historical aspects of my love to money and esthetics. Before, I...
My first coin bought through E-bay was a fake. Why beginners do always make the same errors - precisely against instructions and full of weight like pieces of eight? Charm of novelty and passion move us to...
Chinese CHOPMARKS What Is a CHOPMARK? Oriental chopmarks are counterstamps of Chinese businessmen, Chinese banks or Bullion Houses. Once a coin was chopped, the coin became a Chinese coin accepted as "coin of...
PART IV SPECIAL NOTE Since my guides are no longer featured by eBay, future updates will be published no more frequently than quarterly. JANUARY 2009 UPDATE The Second Golden Bull The Third Year, 2008 Compared...