AGirlGetsDirty
Full Member
- Aug 12, 2013
- 101
- 52
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab & Whites, Garrett 250
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
That is AMAZING!!!!!!Since we haven't heard from GatorBoy, I'll chime. looks to be a small denomination silver Cob, or maybe part of a larger one, from the Mexico mint, first established in 1535, and producing these crude 'Caba de Barras' up to the 1770s.
A bar of silver was simply cut into slices of the approximate weight, these sliver planchets were then hammer struck between crude dies, and clipped down to exact weight.
IMO, one of the finest finds.
Read more here:Spanish Colonial Cobs: Introduction