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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 358381, member: 112&quot;]Toad - </p><p><br /></p><p>With the coins you posted a pic of it was quite common for them to look that way. It was due to the minting process used at the time. They are known as cobs because they are so rough. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the Spanish colonial mints they would take a rough bar of silver that looked something like a small loaf of bread. Then they would slice off a piece of the approximate size they wanted. Then they would weigh the piece, and further carve it down by cutting away the edges until the weight was correct. Then they would strike the planchet making it a coin. As a final check, they would weight the coin once again. And if the weight was over tolerances they would slice a little more off the edges or use an adjustment tool to file it down.</p><p><br /></p><p>They had no interest in trying to make pretty coins. They were only interested in minting as many coins as they could as fast as they could and get them shipped back Spain. All they cared about was that the weight was correct.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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