Spain: 8 maravedi (1621-1665) looks so genuine

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A souvenir of the WoC meeting in Madrid. This coin has the looks of an 8 maravedi 1621-1665, Sevilla mint. That mint worked with strips, passed through rollers and indeed, the coin is ex-centric, you can see a small part of the next die on the roll (the 3 dots at 3 o'clock on the arms side) and portrait and arms are perfectly aligned on the same axis, with the same ex-centricity. With 2.6 grams and 22.1-24.6 mm, it is slightly overweight, but perfectly acceptable. The flan looks adjusted at 6 o'clock.

BUT, at 3 o'clock, between of the arms and the legend should be a vertical VIII or a horizontal 8, often between dots. Not only is it missing, there is no place for the denomination. To make matters worse, the A at 4 o'clock on the arms side is grossly misaligned and the N at 5 o'clock is retrograde. The nose of the portrait looks wrong, but that can be damage or funny light. A good specimen is here.

Contemporary counterfeit? But who would fake a low value coin at full weight? Why does it look so technically good? Could it be genuine after all?

Peter