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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2833500, member: 80804&quot;]Cobs were minted in mainland Spain, too. Evidently, a combination of crude instrumentation and a need to quantify enormous amounts of silver imported from Potosi and other New World sources faster than it could be coined there led the mints to literally cut corners, at least occasionally. But you&#039;re right that this is not a cob - it&#039;s most likely struck on a relatively regular (for the era) round flan created by either punching rounds out of a sheet of metal hammered to the appropriate thickness or cast nearly sphere-shaped and subsequently were hammered flat before minting.&nbsp; This accounts for the irregularity you see in the rim - this piece appears also to have been bent and &quot;straightened&quot;, probably repeatedly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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