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Bogota, Colombia, cob 8 reales, 1668, assayer Po.RS., very rare.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Cobs - Other Silver Start Price:7,000.00 USD Estimated At:7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD
Bogota, Colombia, cob 8 reales, 1668, assayer Po.RS., very rare.
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Bogota, Colombia, cob 8 reales, 1668, assayer Po.RS., very rare. S-B7a; Restrepo-M62.5; KM-12. 27.14 grams. Among the rarest coins to collect are Colombian silver cobs, for silver there was merely a by-product of the region's massive gold production. Within the series, one of the tougher types to get is the Charles II 8 reales, for they do not come from any known hoards or shipwrecks except for a small run from the Piedmont wreck (1795) that has been off the market almost since it was found. And while these Charles II coins tend to be fairly well struck on broad flans, the fact is that relatively few come with full dates and assayers. This coin is the exception, for it shows not only a full 1668 to left and Po.RS. to left, but also full PLVS / VL / TRA, full NoR mintmark, full denomination VIII to right and even the full +-shaped ornament of dots to the left of the shield, in addition to the bottom half of all of the king's name and ordinal CAROLVS II. For wear it is no worse than VF, with nice light toning all over (note its old pedigree). All in all we deem this coin superior to the three other publicly known specimens, only one of which (with shaved edge) is the same variety with denomination to right. Pedigreed to a late-19th or early-20th century collection passed on to the collector's grandson in the 1940s.
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