Unidentified Coin | Replica Spanish Cob Dollar 1696

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vedantdesai New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 08/28/2010 10:08 pm I've stumbled across this coin and could really use some help identifying it. I've tried including both a verbal description as well as a picture of each side. Thanks for the help! Side 1: cross with diagnolly oriented lions and counteroriented castles? the horizontal bar of the cross has two "P" at both ends and the vertical bar of the cross has two "8" at both ends Side 2: two vertical bars intersecting with two horizontal bars, forming 9 boxes containing the following characters: P \| 8\|VR PIV\|SVL\|TRA VR \| 96\|P Identified - moved to World Coins forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16806 Posts	Posted 08/29/2010 04:49 am It's Spanish colonial, a "cob-style" 8 reales from Potosi mint, in what is now Bolivia. "96" is the date, 1696. "Plus Ultra" is the Spanish motto (meaning "more beyond"), "P" is the mintmark for Potosi and "VR" is the monogram of the assayer at the Potosi mint at the time. Needless to say, as a "pirate piece of eight" this kind of coin is very frequently copied. As a quick initial test, can you get a weight for us? A genuine 8 reales should weigh the same as a US silver dollar, or just over 27 grams. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
vedantdesai New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 08/29/2010 12:31 pm shoot! only 14grams, oh well. thanks for the help sap. Report this Post to the Staff
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