Iron_Patch
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A friend of mine and I have put our heads together on this, and I'll post because if we don't have it, I feel we are very close.... and it's good news, because it's originally what you wanted, only a little more interesting.
I now think it is a cut piece of an 8 Reales cob, only in addition to that, it's countermarked with a 600 Brazilian or Portuguese stamp as seen in the picture I'm attaching to this message. What threw me off from the start was all the dots, but now what I believe they are is the beaded edge of the cob, and it's double struck. That's why there is a set of three on the side.
I was pretty sure it would be an interesting coin, and that it certainly is.
I now think it is a cut piece of an 8 Reales cob, only in addition to that, it's countermarked with a 600 Brazilian or Portuguese stamp as seen in the picture I'm attaching to this message. What threw me off from the start was all the dots, but now what I believe they are is the beaded edge of the cob, and it's double struck. That's why there is a set of three on the side.
I was pretty sure it would be an interesting coin, and that it certainly is.