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Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Philip IV?, cut down and flattened back out to 8R diameter in its

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Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Philip IV?, cut down and flattened back out to 8R diameter in its
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Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Philip IV?, cut down and flattened back out to 8R diameter in its own time. 18.0 grams. A fine piece of 17th-century thievery, the original coin trimmed to almost half its diameter and then hammered flat to look like an 8R once again, with square nail hole in center where the coin was secured during the hammering, the small part in the center where original design remains, grading Fine or so, nicely toned.