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Mexico City, Mexico, bust 8 reales, Charles III, 1784FM, with bust on obverse engraved into a portra

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Mexico City, Mexico, bust 8 reales, Charles III, 1784FM, with bust on obverse engraved into a portra
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Mexico City, Mexico, bust 8 reales, Charles III, 1784FM, with bust on obverse engraved into a portrait of Ferdinand VII. KM-106.2; CT-936. 26.2 grams. Talk about an odd transitional type! This coin is by all counts a typical F-VF with light toning and slightly crude rims (as made), but long ago someone shaved the portrait down and engraved it to look very nearly like the portrait for Ferdinand VII used on the coins from 1810 forward.