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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1649 Z, with crowned-arms countermark on cross, ex-Capitana (1654), e

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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1649 Z, with crowned-arms countermark on cross, ex-Capitana (1654), e
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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1649 Z, with crowned-arms countermark on cross, ex-Capitana (1654), ex-Ponte, Mastalir Plate. S-P34; KM-19a; Cal-1485. 21.43 grams. Ful 649 date and about 1/2" worth (more than usual) of the countermark at top of full but slightly doubled cross, the full shield even more doubled but with clear assayer to left, AXF with toned crevices, light corrosion in peripheries. From the Capitana (1654), pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection and to Sedwick Auction 12 (lot 461), Plate Coin on page 33 of Mastalir's The Great Transition at the Potosí Mint 1649-1652: The 1649-1652 Crowned Shield Coinage and the Countermarks of 1652, Part A: The 1649-1652 Crowned Shield Coinage (2021) and on page 54 of Part B: The Countermarks of 1652.