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To add...These were cut from bars... they were done fast and crude due to the pressing demand to export them to Spain as quickly as possible.
"The intention in minting these crude but accurately weighed cobs was to produce an easily portable product that could be sent to Spain. In Spain the cobs would be melted down to produce silver jewelry, coins, bars and other items."