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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3129523, member: 10461&quot;]Neat find!&nbsp; Hope it&#039;s real.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my antique mall dealer days, I had someone bring me what purported to be a cob 8-reales coin that he said had been found on the beach here (St. Simons Island, GA).&nbsp; It did have some sand in the crevices, but it was a total tourist fake and not even silver.&nbsp; I did believe the guy&#039;s story about finding it on the beach, however.&nbsp; (But it&#039;s also possible his story was as fake as the coin.)</p><p><br /></p><p>An old friend of mine did find a genuine (small-denomination) cob on the beach here.&nbsp; And there have been other Spanish Mission Period artifacts found here- <a href="https://auction.sedwickcoins.com/Triangular-cut-piece-of-a-silver-splash-ingot-70-2-grams-marked-with-a-crowned-Mexican-style-cro_i15945954" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auction.sedwickcoins.com/Triangular-cut-piece-of-a-silver-splash-ingot-70-2-grams-marked-with-a-crowned-Mexican-style-cro_i15945954" rel="nofollow">this one</a> by another friend of mine, and <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-i-call-this-one-the-coin-1998.287817/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-flashback-i-call-this-one-the-coin-1998.287817/">this one</a> by me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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