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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1702 Y, housed in original frame with certificate, very rare provenan

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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1702 Y, housed in original frame with certificate, very rare provenan
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BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1702 Y, housed in original frame with certificate, very rare provenance. S-P43a; KM-31; Cal-1536. 21¾" x 13½" (frame). Fairly clear date and pillars-and-waves (other side not on view) with light toning and no visible corrosion, elegantly framed with its original certificate and postcard showing an engraving of the ship as from a presentation to investors in 1987 that proposed to turn the Whydah museum into a Florida theme park. One of the more important numismatic aspects of the famous Whydah finds is the fact that a relatively large amount of cobs from Lima and Potosí were recovered, perhaps explaining the relative paucity of those coins found from the 1715 Fleet in our time—in other words, the majority of those coins were taken off the Fleet wrecks by pirates and ended up with Bellamy on the Whydah! As with all the coins selected for these displays, the original certificate mistakenly calls the mint "Mexico"; we have left the display intact, however, as a relic of the investment scheme that indirectly brought otherwise unobtainable Whydah coins to market in recent years. Framed with original Maritime / Betts & Bernstein certificate 30411 signed by Barry Clifford. Recovered from: Whydah, sunk in 1717 off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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