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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 2 reales, 1652 E, transitional McLean Type I, rare, ex-Ponte, Mastalir Plate.

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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 2 reales, 1652 E, transitional McLean Type I, rare, ex-Ponte, Mastalir Plate.
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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 2 reales, 1652 E, transitional McLean Type I, rare, ex-Ponte, Mastalir Plate. S-P37; KM-15.1; Cal-914. 8.94 grams. Contrastingly toned VF with full and well-struck (also well-centered) pillars and shield, two full crowns, holed at top of pillars side but otherwise choice for the type and vastly overweight (mathematically closer to 3 reales than to 2 reales!). Pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection, Plate Coin on page 96 of Mastalir's The Great Transition at the Potosí Mint 1649-1653: The 1652 Transitional Minor Denominations, 4, 2, 1 and 1/2 Reales (2016).