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Caracas, Venezuela (?), "imitation cob" 1 real, "931" date (ca. 1813), quadrants of cross transposed

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Caracas, Venezuela (?),  imitation cob  1 real,  931  date (ca. 1813), quadrants of cross transposed
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Caracas, Venezuela (?), "imitation cob" 1 real, "931" date (ca. 1813), quadrants of cross transposed, very rare, NGC XF 45. Cal-509; KM-unl; Stohr 9A; Rosenman p. 25 fig 8; Guttag-4146. 2.86 grams. Good full cross with R below, bold and full but off-center pillars, with dark rich toning all over. Although current references attribute all 1R of this design to the Caracas series, in fact the styles of lion and castle punches (plus some less obvious elements) on ones like this are unknown on other Caracas issues, to the point that many experts believe these other 1R could have been made in Santa Marta, Colombia (from the ca.-1813 issues of Viceroy Montalvo) in imitation of the Caracas coins (see the 2011 article "Acerca de las acunaciones del Virrey Montalvo," by Colombian numismatist Jorge Becerra, on pp. 9-13 of Numiscol's Boletin Numismatico 90); however, no documentary evidence has been found so far to support this.
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