{"id":2699,"date":"2019-09-12T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2019-09-12T19:47:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:47:24","slug":"heartbreak-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2699","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreak Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turns out yesterday’s silver disk may be a 4 reale.\u00a0 A 4 reale is a Spanish silver coin, probably minted in Mexico City, like most Spanish silver found in America.\u00a0 If you think of “Pieces of Eight”, a 4 reale is half of that.\u00a0 Pieces of Eight circulated widely in early America, and I’ve found 1\/2 reales, 1 reale, and 2 reales.\u00a0 (A 1 reale is one “piece of eight”.\u00a0 The American phrase “2 bits” for a quarter dollar comes from this system, as sometimes they cut the 8 reale coins into 8 bits).<\/p>\n

4 reales are incredibly rare.\u00a0 They may be rarer than the namesake 8 reale, I dunno.<\/p>\n

But, I can’t prove it is a 4 reale.\u00a0 (I did upgrade it from a silver object to a silver coin, tho, so I get an extra silver on my stats :)).\u00a0 The evidence that it may be a 4 reale comes from its diameter, consistent with a 4 reale, but not with an American half or silver dollar.\u00a0 Moreover, the edging is consistent with a 4 reale, sort of a spaced reeding, as in this pic.<\/p>\n

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There is a thread about my coin on FMDF<\/a>, which is rather interesting, and gave me the idea that it could be a reale (I thought it was a clock part or something).\u00a0 The thread suggests giving it an acid bath to see if features will come out, as was done with another coin (the acid is a mixture of nitric and diluted HCl, which I just happen to have on hand, doesn’t everyone?).<\/p>\n

It didn’t work.\u00a0 Too bad.\u00a0 In a way I am glad, as knowing you have a worthless rare find seems worse than thinking you have a clock part or something.<\/p>\n

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That said, I found something really rare, and really toasted today, that, unlike this, I think I can prove.\u00a0 About to write it up.<\/p>\n

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Turns out yesterday’s silver disk may be a 4 reale.\u00a0 A 4 reale is a Spanish silver coin, probably minted in Mexico City, like most Spanish silver found in America.\u00a0 If you think of “Pieces of Eight”, a 4 reale … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}