Cob Coins

There are many experts in this forum that will be able to help you. In the mean time, see if you can post a picture please. This will help greatly. Oh, and welcome to our forum, hope you hang around a while.

Steve

Without seeing a picture, all the indications you've given so far indicate to me it's likely to be some kind of "tourist copy" of a Spanish colonial coin - either a "pirate piece of eight" or a "pirate dubloon". I'd take the apparent seam and nodule on the rim as evidence of a cast copy.

The Spanish colonies apparently didn't make any "cob-style" copper coins, not till the 1800's anyway. The Philippines and Spain proper both did, though the designs don't really look "cob-like".

Does it look something like this one?

This one's purporting to be a Spanish Peru 8 reales dated 1736. It's got a seam so wide it looks like you could easily separate the two pieces with a blunt knife.

Thanks SAP! It does resemble that coin you posted. However, the border stops at the "dots" and has no text around the edge. It is very worn and look way too circular to be this old of a "rough" type coin as that's all I've seen these coins to look like. I think I have a knock-off of an old one unfortunately! Thanks for your help though! I appreciate that!