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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, (1650) O, with two crowned-T countermarks on cross (very rare with tw

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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, (1650) O, with two crowned-T countermarks on cross (very rare with tw
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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, (1650) O, with two crowned-T countermarks on cross (very rare with two countermarks), ex-Capitana, ex-Ponte, Mastalir Plate. S-P35; KM-19b; Cal-1488. 24.97 grams. Solid, oblong flan with practically no corrosion but very weakly struck (AVG), yet with both countermarks very bold (one nearly full at top and other about 80% at bottom left), old-style shield and cross, nicely toned. From the Capitana (1654), pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection, Plate Coin on page 221 of Mastalir's 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.