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What are these things? Cobs maybe?

I found these in some bulk foreign poundage that was brought into my office. What are these things? Im sure there isn't much value here but I'm quite curious about them...

Thanks for any help


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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,478 ✭✭✭✭✭

    To get you started..,

    Andy Lustig

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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The ones with holes drilled in them may have been trimmed down and sculpted to better fit their new purpose as jewellery, but yes, these are cobs. Or realistic replicas thereof.

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,478 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Sapyx said:
    The ones with holes drilled in them may have been trimmed down and sculpted to better fit their new purpose as jewellery, but yes, these are cobs. Or realistic replicas thereof.

    Most holed small silver cobs were holed so they could be put on a string, so they would be less likely to be lost. And in the case of small Guatemala cobs, a large majority of them have been holed.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I sure wouldn't say no to a couple of scoops out of that poundage bucket.

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