Good day! 3 silver Spanish cobs!!

[perdidogringo]

I had my best day ever yesterday- 3 silver cobs! They look like two clipped 1/2 reales (they weigh 1.3 g and 1.0 g., respectively) and a 1/4 real (weight .7 g). One of the 1/2 reales is in great shape, another in ok shape, and the 1/4 real is rough shape. If anyone can identify the origin and date any of the coins, I'd appreciate it.

 

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[bill from lachine]

Good going on the Spanish silver cobs...hopefully someone can help you id them.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[trapperart]

Super congrats on the silver

 

[Gridwalker306]

Holy moley! Congrats on the fantastic silvers!

 

[Squirrel322]

WOW

That looks like a fun dig !

 

[testing123]

wow, now that's a killer hunt. Congrats!

 

[Chestdiesel]

You'd be considered lucky to find 3 of those in a lifetime here!! Crazy good score brother!! Congrats from the U.S. with love.

 

[Mackaydon]

Bottom coins, especially the one on the right, appear to be Segovia maravedis (Castle and lion) Maybe from Philip IV reign (1621-1665 ; my WAG as to year.
Don.....

 

[against the wind]

Sweet Spanish Silver X 3,
Congrats

 

[CRUSADER]

You'd be considered lucky to find 3 of those in a lifetime here!! Crazy good score brother!! Congrats from the U.S. with love.

Yeap, still looking for my first cob over here....

CONGRATS

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratulations on the set of cobs!

 

[Scrappy]

Location location location! Great finds. Three in a day is incredible. Congrats and I'm glad Don could get an ID for you.

 

[Terry Soloman]

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[perdidogringo]

Location location location! Great finds. Three in a day is incredible. Congrats and I'm glad Don could get an ID for you.

So much potential down south of the border. When I go home to the Chicago area, I'm thrilled when I find a coin from the 1940s. Metal detecting is just taking off down here and I urge those of you with an adventurous streak, to come visit down here.

 

[ARC]

far out cool... Well done.

 

[perdidogringo]

Bottom coins, especially the one on the right, appear to be Segovia maravedis (Castle and lion) Maybe from Philip IV reign (1621-1665 ; my WAG as to year.
Don.....

Hi Don,

I think the 2nd one might be another Sante Fe (Bogota) cuartillo from around 1755 like it states here: http://www.macuquina.com/articles/Santa Fe Cuartillo 1755.pdf

Looks similar, no?

The 3rd one is so worn (and probably clipped) that I can't tell.

 

[perdidogringo]

Ok, I think I have positively identified the cob with the clearly visible cross on it. I've been doing some more online research and it has led me to suspect that it is a Philip IV 1/2 real cob from Bogota, circa 1621- 1665. Looks very similar to this one: https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=706&lot=1083

What do you think?

 

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[btjbtj]

Incredible! Congrats! --Lisa & John

 

[Dust Eater]

"Good day"
What an understatement. Great job on the cobs!