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Collection of 27 silver cobs struck in or cut into animal shapes (six 8R and twenty-one minors), col

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - World Start Price:2,500.00 USD Estimated At:2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Collection of 27 silver cobs struck in or cut into animal shapes (six 8R and twenty-one minors), col
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Collection of 27 silver cobs struck in or cut into animal shapes (six 8R and twenty-one minors), collected by Louis Hudson. While true zoomorphic shapes made specially at the mint command big premiums, even more so than Royals and Hearts, there is still some value in cobs that were simply animal-like by whim of nature and ones that were artistically cut down into recognizable shapes by colonists. This collection, assembled by expert coin dealer Louis Hudson over many years, displays a wide range of different animals and other shapes, mostly smaller coins but a few larger ones, which are of course much more dramatic, perhaps the most interesting one (with red coral-bead necklace) in the form of a fat chicken. Almost all are holed, as they were kept as jewelry, with dates and other diagnostic data visible on some, the earliest coin a Mexican Charles-Joanna 1R (mid-1500s) and the latest a Potosi 2R of 1769, grades anywhere from Good to AVF.