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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1650 (Spanish 5) O, with crowned-T countermark on shield and crowned-

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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1650 (Spanish 5) O, with crowned-T countermark on shield and crowned-
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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1650 (Spanish 5) O, with crowned-T countermark on shield and crowned-L countermark on cross (very rare with two countermarks), ex-Maravillas, ex-Ponte, Mastalir Plate. S-P35; KM-19b; Cal-1488. 25.24 grams. Choice AXF despite corrosion around edge, with most of countermark at top right of full shield with bold •P•O• to left and 8-O• to right, full and bold date outside of good full cross with most of second countermark in center, lightly toned. From the Maravillas (1656), pedigreed to Sedwick Auction 20 (lot 370) and the Luis R. Ponte Collection, Plate Coin on page 83 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 227 of Part B: The Countermarks of 1652.