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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 24494848, member: 110226&quot;]This very dark salvaged cob came to me by that vast market for coins, the wild west so to speak, eBay, last month.&nbsp; As these coins go it is pretty typical of a coin that has been immersed in water (not sure whether fresh or salt) for hundreds of years.&nbsp; While it is very dark, the weight is not bad, at 26.77 grams, the strike respectable for this period and mint. </p><p><br /></p><p>What is of interest, and the main reason I acquired it, is the chopmark on the cross side, upper left quadrant, in a area of flat strike.&nbsp; The chopmark is in fact a swastika, an ancient symbol often associated with eastern religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism.&nbsp; Of course this symbol was adopted by the Nazi Party in the 1920s and as such became the symbol for war, hate and genocide.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not nearly as frequent to find chopmarks on cob coinage.&nbsp; Machine struck milled coins that circulated extensively in the East are much more common.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Potos,i 8 reales, Philip IV, (162)9, assayer T (Juan Ximenez de Tapia).</b></p><p><b>Paoletti 182; KM 19.a </b></p><p><b>26.77 grams</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552419[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552422[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So, please feel free to post your chopmarked coins, 8 reales, or anything else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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