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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 2088221, member: 69760&quot;]Per the article, didn&#039;t the last series of cobs stop in 1773? So, during the American Revolution years and afterwards, there should be standardized milled coins at all mint cities. Though, I&#039;m unsure of how long that negative reputation stuck around - perhaps the size/weight disparity issues were replaced by colonists&#039; skepticism of lesser silver purity (this is just a speculative possibility).... All in all, I wouldn&#039;t think it would stick around that long since milled coins had an edge inscription and all mint coins were more or less homogeneous in appearance post-1773, aka confidence restored/increased in those former cob mint cities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the favor of Mexico City Milled Dollars has more to do with transportation costs. It must have been magnitudes more expensive to transport tons and tons of coins from mints further away from Mexico City during the pre-rail years. Or maybe the other mints were ordered to ship silver back to Spain. But I&#039;m no historian, so don&#039;t take my word for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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