cut silver cob?????

[floodcitykid]

I found this in an area that has yielded some old coins and relics included were a spanish reale. Im wondering if this could be a cut spanish cob or some kind of colonial homemade immitation. It is silver and you can see the cut marks on it, they used to cut coins to make change.

Any opinions?

Thanks

Floodcitykid

 

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[Dig em all]

Kinda hard to see but those cut makes look like saw marks I dont think they had hack saws back ten I think they used a ax or chisel to cut them back then.

But then again my ex mother in law had teeth like a bever/blackfish

 

[Sheldon J]

oxidization looks kind of like lead to me....

 

[CRUSADER]

oxidization looks kind of like lead to me....

 

[Monty]

If it's silver cut off a cobb it's two bits! If lead, no telling. Monty

 

[floodcitykid]

oxidization looks kind of like lead to me....

It is silver, It was tested and came up silver.

TFCK

 

[CRUSADER]

oxidization looks kind of like lead to me....

It is silver, It was tested and came up silver.

TFCK

very strange looking silver, but if so, its not a coin.

 

[Mackaydon]

If the bottom pic is inverted and enlarged, to these eyes there appears a "1" and a "6".

 

[steelheadwill]

If the bottom pic is inverted and enlarged, to these eyes there appears a "1" and and "6".

mine too, good eye.
sure does look like a lot of lead 'bits' I find. Silver Is Great

 

[Monty]

Well if it was a coin it wasn't unusual in the olden times to cut up money due to a shortage of minted coin. That's where the old saying, "Two bits, four bits, six bits a dollar comes from". Monty

 

[Sheldon J]

Well if it was a coin it wasn't unusual in the olden times to cut up money due to a shortage of minted coin. That's where the old saying, "Two bits, four bits, six bits a dollar comes from". Monty

I remember reading stories of counterfeiters that made coins of various materials some were of a higher silver content than what the government issues and some a lot less... Silver in it's natural state often contains varying amounts of lead, which leads me to wondering if this could be one of those old coins that was passed freely....

 

[CRUSADER]

Well if it was a coin it wasn't unusual in the olden times to cut up money due to a shortage of minted coin. That's where the old saying, "Two bits, four bits, six bits a dollar comes from". Monty

I remember reading stories of counterfeiters that made coins of various materials some were of a higher silver content than what the government issues and some a lot less... Silver in it's natural state often contains varying amounts of lead, which leads me to wondering if this could be one of those old coins that was passed freely....

I would like to understand this a little better, can you clarify. Are you saying that US counterfeiters made 'imitations' of known coinage which had more silver content than the coins they were copying?

 

[Sheldon J]

Back when I use to read "Lost Treasure" and buy their treasure atlas religiously there were multiple stories of counterfeiters that back in the early days when hard currency was in short supply used silver they found to strike their own coins many of varying quality, from very good to just plain junk.

Of coarse this was and still is illegal and they were for the most shut down and some were caught. in one of the stories one particular counterfeiter was using a very high quality silver, one that actually exceeded what the government standard of the day was for coinage.

If I had a link I would provide it, but it has been a number of years and several computers ago that I kept track of those stories. But maybe they are still archived on their web site.

 

[CRUSADER]

Back when I use to read "Lost Treasure" and buy their treasure atlas religiously there were multiple stories of counterfeiters that back in the early days when hard currency was in short supply used silver they found to strike their own coins many of varying quality, from very good to just plain junk.

Of coarse this was and still is illegal and they were for the most shut down and some were caught. in one of the stories one particular counterfeiter was using a very high quality silver, one that actually exceeded what the government standard of the day was for coinage.

If I had a link I would provide it, but it has been a number of years and several computers ago that I kept track of those stories. But maybe they are still archived on their web site.

Interesting, first I have heard.

I guess what your saying is; they could have produced their own type coins/tokens which were higher silver than the circulating Govt. stuff. Ie. they didn't copy known coins. That would make a little more sense, I think

 

[Iron Patch]

Back when I use to read "Lost Treasure" and buy their treasure atlas religiously there were multiple stories of counterfeiters that back in the early days when hard currency was in short supply used silver they found to strike their own coins many of varying quality, from very good to just plain junk.

Of coarse this was and still is illegal and they were for the most shut down and some were caught. in one of the stories one particular counterfeiter was using a very high quality silver, one that actually exceeded what the government standard of the day was for coinage.

If I had a link I would provide it, but it has been a number of years and several computers ago that I kept track of those stories. But maybe they are still archived on their web site.

Interesting, first I have heard.

I guess what your saying is; they could have produced their own type coins/tokens which were higher silver than the circulating Govt. stuff. Ie. they didn't copy known coins. That would make a little more sense, I think

The standard/quality of the silver could have been higher as long as they made them well under weight.

 

[CRUSADER]

Back when I use to read "Lost Treasure" and buy their treasure atlas religiously there were multiple stories of counterfeiters that back in the early days when hard currency was in short supply used silver they found to strike their own coins many of varying quality, from very good to just plain junk.

Of coarse this was and still is illegal and they were for the most shut down and some were caught. in one of the stories one particular counterfeiter was using a very high quality silver, one that actually exceeded what the government standard of the day was for coinage.

If I had a link I would provide it, but it has been a number of years and several computers ago that I kept track of those stories. But maybe they are still archived on their web site.

Interesting, first I have heard.

I guess what your saying is; they could have produced their own type coins/tokens which were higher silver than the circulating Govt. stuff. Ie. they didn't copy known coins. That would make a little more sense, I think

The standard/quality of the silver could have been higher as long as they made them well under weight.

or if you only count the plating & not the core