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  • sylsyl Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭
    What's the size? The 1st photo is upside down. Can you post the first pic right-side up and a little smaller so theat the whole coin just fits onto a computer screen? All I can see initially is the Mexico mintmark.
  • SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Size of a half dollar in a gold bezel
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  • sylsyl Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭
    To me, it looks almost too round to be authentic, but it may have been cut down or trimmed so that it would fit in the bezel for a necklace. The date are normally in the 10-11:00 area at the edge with the mint and assyer marks left at 9:00 .. to me it looks like P over R. The denomination is normally at 3:00 and could be not using normal numerals. The thing that looks like O over M might be another way of writing the number 4 in true Arabic. Aroung the outside should be the legend, but I can't see a single letter .. either worn off or trimmed off. Sorry, can't help but the P at 9:00 could be Potasi mint in Bolivia.
  • AndresAndres Posts: 977 ✭✭✭
    The cob looks OK to me, clearly P at left side 9 at o'clock = Potosí Bolivia underneath an R but probably has a capital before the R =its an assayers mark
    at right side 3 o'clock IIII = 4 reales = approx 13,5 grammes silver - struck under King Philip III or Philip the IV of Spain.(habsburg shield)

    looks like a Mel Fisher cob , the keys Florida , with that gold bezel, Mel found the Atocha shipwreck in 1985 that went down in 1622 with 40 tons of silver cobs on board.
    he's been selling cobs since 1985 untill present day.
    collector of Greek banknotes - most beautifull world banknotes - Greek & Roman ancient coins.
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