First Cob...but fake as fake can be!

[digger27]

I didn't really think for a second this 1630 Spanish Reale Cob was real being dug up here in Kansas in a pretty modern park and all, but it was a dead on quarter signal so quite a surprise when this thing popped up instead.
I have seen posts from a few others that found similar coins, sometimes in way better condition than mine and in areas where real ones could be found so a heart-breaker target under the right circumstances.
I could see the seam around the end, the front and back seem to be copper with probably a nickel coating and one side of mine has worn off so the copper is coming through.
One edge is open and it seems to be zinc or some other material in the core.
Funny thing is there is no word "copy" stamped on it anywhere which I believe is law on any novelty coins so this could have been a ripoff counterfeit fake made to make someone money.
Whatever...still cool and not the most common find so I will take it and display it.
Maybe one day I will be hunting in an area that real ones were lost and find one...who knows?

 

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[davehky]

Check out one of my first few post! I found one like that my first year detecting. I thought was real, but what do I know....was new at this..better then clad fnds though...

 

[digger27]

Check out one of my first few post! I found one like that my first year detecting. I thought was real, but what do I know....was new at this..better then clad fnds though...

I have found a few other posts from hunters that found these, including one found in the water off the coast in Florida where it got that guy really excited for awhile and then broke his heart when he realized it was fake.
Still, not the most common find and we are members of a pretty exclusive club...or I am going to think of this find that way.
Life gives you lemons...make lemonade is my motto.

 

[Mackaydon]

Finding these fakes provides another opportunity to learn the history of these coins as if they were real.
That, to me, is the real reward to finding these 'coins'.
Don.......

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

I'd call it a keeper too if I found it.
How many have found / dug a 8R cob ? not too many. Joeyfresh is the only one that comes to my mind in 8 years of T-net.

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Its a real fake, who knows maybe someone got strung up for trying to pass it off for "Real"