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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 4 reales, (1650) O, with crowned-script-P countermark (very rare) on cross, ex-

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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 4 reales, (1650) O, with crowned-script-P countermark (very rare) on cross, ex-
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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 4 reales, (1650) O, with crowned-script-P countermark (very rare) on cross, ex-Ponte, ex-Hudson, Mastalir Plate. S-P35; KM-17b; Cal-1106. 8.62 grams. Very deep and nearly full countermark in center of cross, full shield with bold O to left, much flatness and thin from corrosion, somewhat silvery. Pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection and the Louis Hudson Collection (Sedwick Auction 6, lot 348), also plated on page 208 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). Recovered from: Capitana, sunk in 1654 off Chanduy, Ecuador