Cob found in CA beach storm erosion. ID please:

[Tom_in_CA]

This was found by a friend of mine many years back after beach storm erosion. On a Monterey peninsula beach, not far from the 1771 location of Carmel mission. And at a beach noted on even earlier explorer journeys (where they were just exploring/mapping the coast in earlier times).

Not very often a cob gets found in CA . I can think of this one, and have heard of a single other. Our first permanent European toe-hold wasn't till 1769 (and '70-71-ish at the location this was found). And even up till 1800, the entire European non-indian population in the entire state, probably only numbered in the hundreds. I've found many milled reales back to the 1770s. And even a few in the 1750s/60s milled reales. And a copper coin from the 1740s. But never a cob.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the transition from cobs to milled coins was about the 1740s, right ? Depending on the country, the mint, etc... So if you can't specifically ID this, then what is it safe to say could be the *newest* it could date to ?

Disregard the other coins in the pix , for purposes of this question.

 

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[Mackaydon]

Tom,
Great find !
Cob coins were minted at the Mexico City mint from 1536 through 1733, when they were replaced by the machine struck milled pillar dollar that first saw production in 1732.
Source: Sedwick. http://www.newworldtreasures.com/cobs-mexico.htm
Cobs from Potosi may have been minted through 1773.
Source: Spanish Colonial Cobs: Introduction
Don....

 

[Tom_in_CA]

thanx mackaydon