Fooleeze
Senior Member
I really debated posting this in the "stories and pictures of finds", but I decided to put it here because I'm really hoping to get more information about this.
I was hunting in a local park where I have found some 1800s buttons and one large cent. But this one really came as a surprise to me. It is clearly an 1821 eight reale from Columbia. But it is also clearly not silver. It rings at a 50 on my Garrett AT Max out of the ground. I've never found a reale, never really hoped to in my area. I was really excited for about half a second until I realized it wasn't really silver. But counterfeit is still kind of cool.
Here is an example of what it looks like, minus the silver.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces35034.html
Does anyone know anything about counterfeit coins?
I was hunting in a local park where I have found some 1800s buttons and one large cent. But this one really came as a surprise to me. It is clearly an 1821 eight reale from Columbia. But it is also clearly not silver. It rings at a 50 on my Garrett AT Max out of the ground. I've never found a reale, never really hoped to in my area. I was really excited for about half a second until I realized it wasn't really silver. But counterfeit is still kind of cool.
Here is an example of what it looks like, minus the silver.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces35034.html
Does anyone know anything about counterfeit coins?
