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<p>[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 4872445, member: 109923"]Very interesting. It really was the first international currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't have one from the Sana'a Hoard, or Mexico, or even a hoard, but I do have a Charles II 8 reales cob:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1176718[/ATTACH] Charles II, 8 reales, 1676, Potosí, Peru (Bolivia), assayer E (Antonio de Ergueta). PLV·SVL·TRA, POTOSI ANO EL PERV. CAROLUS·II·D·G·HISPAN·. Recovered from Consolación, sunk in 1681 off Santa Clara Island, Ecuador.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, they're all so crude because the Spanish wanted a quicker method of production. That involved simply clipping a 'cabo' (cob) off a silver bar and hammering it between two dies, missing out the bit where you rolled out and smoothed the silver. That, and because like mine they often ended up at the bottom of the sea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 4872445, member: 109923"]Very interesting. It really was the first international currency. I don't have one from the Sana'a Hoard, or Mexico, or even a hoard, but I do have a Charles II 8 reales cob: [ATTACH=full]1176718[/ATTACH] Charles II, 8 reales, 1676, Potosí, Peru (Bolivia), assayer E (Antonio de Ergueta). PLV·SVL·TRA, POTOSI ANO EL PERV. CAROLUS·II·D·G·HISPAN·. Recovered from Consolación, sunk in 1681 off Santa Clara Island, Ecuador. Apparently, they're all so crude because the Spanish wanted a quicker method of production. That involved simply clipping a 'cabo' (cob) off a silver bar and hammering it between two dies, missing out the bit where you rolled out and smoothed the silver. That, and because like mine they often ended up at the bottom of the sea.[/QUOTE]
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