✅ SOLVED 1740 2 reales error ID needed

[cannonball]

Can anyone here help identify this coin that I found yesterday? It seems to have an error in the date under the 4 in 1740.

 

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[fyrffytr1]

I hope you don't mind but I edited your photo to better show the date. I can't tell if it is another number under the four or die damage. Maybe someone else will chime in.
Either way that is a nice coin. Please tell us the story on it.

 

[cannonball]

I hope you don't mind but I edited your photo to better show the date. I can't tell if it is another number under the four or die damage. Maybe someone else will chime in.
Either way that is a nice coin. Please tell us the story on it.

I posted it on today's Finds "Another 2 bites"

 

[ARC]

This is from anomaly on die.

 

[ironhorse]

I wouldn't call it an error, rather just a variety.
It appears that a '3' is under the 4 in the date from your pics, to me this is a repunched date(rpd).
When they finished minting 1739 issues the reverse die with the date was still usable so it was saved and the date was repunched for 1740 coins of the same denomination.
It was a common practice to save usable dies until they were absolutely unusable.
Other examples of similar practices are repunched mintmarks, retooled devices, and weak strikes caused by overpolished dies..etc
Although rpd's are common they do add value and interest to some coins , in this case there probably isnt much premium on this .
Really nice find, great shape too!

 

[Mackaydon]

It's an authentic 1740/30 coin; noted as number 745 in Frank W. Grove's book, Coins of Mexico. This coin of XF40 or better commands a premium (per Coins and Prices 2019 North American guide: David C. Harper, Editor.)
Don......

 

[cannonball]

It's an authentic 1740/30 coin; noted as number 745 in Frank W. Grove's book, Coins of Mexico. This coin of XF40 or better commands a premium (per Coins and Prices 2019 North American guide: David C. Harper, Editor.)
Don......

Nice ID! Thank You Dave

 

[cannonball]

SOLVED by MACKAYDON