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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8253346, member: 110226&quot;]Going backwards in time, here is a Potosi cob, Philip II, Assayer B.&nbsp; It is one of the first cobs I bought back in 1981. </p><p><br /></p><p>It came from Hal Blackburn of Carmel by the Sea, California.&nbsp; I remember driving to his shop on Saturdays.&nbsp; I had quite a few Morgan dollars at the time, that I collected based on Wayne Miller&#039;s book.&nbsp; By 1982 I was growing tired of collecting by VAM numbers, and I wanted to focus on a field of numismatics that had a combination of history, romance, politics, and economics. The Spanish colonial and mainland hammer-struck coinage became my focus for the next thirty years, until I shifted my focus to ancients, a field that I collected on and off during that span of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin matches Paoletti Group B2, Philip II, 1578 to 1581. It seems closest to No. 70.&nbsp; He mentions that the castles for his group include courtyards and the lions are clearly rampant, as they are on the Hapsburg shield.</p><p><br /></p><p>Generally speaking, the early cobs of Potosi, struck during the reign of Philip II, exhibit high standards of quality.&nbsp; They were produced on wide, fairly round flans, and the strikes, while exhibiting some unevenness, as is almost always the case with hammer-struck coins, are mostly very well centered, with complete or nearly complete legends.&nbsp; The dies themselves were skillfully engraved.&nbsp; As the coinage progressed from Philip II to his son, Philip III and then to Philip IV, things started going downhill at the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>I apologize for the blurry photos.&nbsp; They were among the first that I took in 2020, when I was learning to use this digital SLR.&nbsp; I&#039;m sill learning.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454670[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As I take more photos of the cobs, and there are a lot to go through, I&#039;ll post them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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