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Lima, Peru, cob 4 reales, "Star of Lima" type, 1659V, very rare.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Shipwreck - Silver Coins 1500s-1650s Start Price:3,500.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Lima, Peru, cob 4 reales,  Star of Lima  type, 1659V, very rare.
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Lima, Peru, cob 4 reales, "Star of Lima" type, 1659V, very rare. S-L5; KM-17; CT-660. 12.60 grams. Exceptional, uncorroded specimen with choice full pillars-and-waves, bold V to left, * / LIMA / 1659 in center and 4 to right, the cross-lions-castles also full and choice, very richly toned and with small patch of orange encrustation on part of edge, certainly among the best known of this elusive issue. Recovered from: "Jupiter wreck" (San Miguel el Arcangel), sunk in 1659 off the east coast of Florida