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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8253330, member: 110226&quot;]Thanks.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you have the correct information on your Potosi 1 real cob.&nbsp; It&#039;s a nice coin, with clear detail of the important information.&nbsp; I even see part of the &quot;POT...&quot;, for Potosi, on the pillars side, in the legend. The P appears to be partially crammed into the O, probably due to the space limitation of the 1 real die, but that&#039;s just a guess on my part.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hammer struck cobs were the mainstay of trade from the late 1500s all the way through to the wars of independence in the first two decades of the 1800s.&nbsp; They continued to dominate trade, especially in Asia, in the form of republic machine-struck coins, primarily from Mexico.&nbsp; No other coin was able to knock the 8 reales off of its pedestal, though other countries tried, notably the United States, Japan and Great Britain, without any meaningful success.&nbsp; Old habits die hard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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