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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 4 reales, 1650 O, with crowned-A countermark on shield, crowned-C and crown-alo

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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 4 reales, 1650 O, with crowned-A countermark on shield, crowned-C and crown-alo
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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 4 reales, 1650 O, with crowned-A countermark on shield, crowned-C and crown-alone (rare variety) on cross (extremely rare with three countermarks), ex-Ponte, ex-Hudson, ex-Ponterio, Mastalir Plate, KM Plate. S-P35; KM-17b; Cal-1106. 11.79 grams. Odd-shaped flan with only minimal surface pitting, nearly full but hard-to-read countermark with distinctive columns of dots on top of full shield, both countermarks on full cross clear and bold, full 0 of date in legend, toned in crevices, an important and well-pedigreed coin that is one of only two examples of three-countermark 4 reales we have ever handled (for the other, see lot 230 in this auction). Pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection and the Louis Hudson Collection (Sedwick Auction 6, lot 351), also pedigreed to the Ponterio "La Capitana" auction of April 1999 (lot 41), plated on pages 52, 77, and 378 and of Mastalir's book The Great Transition at the Potosí Mint, 1649-1652: The 1649-1652 Crowned Shield Coinage and the Countermarks of 1652, Part B: The Countermarks of 1652 (2020), also plated in KM's Standard Catalog references. Recovered from: Capitana, sunk in 1654 off Chanduy, Ecuador