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Lima, Peru, cob 8 escudos, 1707H, rare, from the 1715 Fleet.

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Lima, Peru, cob 8 escudos, 1707H, rare, from the 1715 Fleet.
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Lima, Peru, cob 8 escudos, 1707H, rare, from the 1715 Fleet. S-L25a; KM-38.1; CT-17. 26.9 grams. Broad-flan AU- with full and nicely red-toned centers (pillars-and-waves and cross-lions-castles, the latter quite bold) but weaker peripheries. Two legends variants exist for this date: ISPANIA and ISPANIAR, of which the present specimen is the latter (Tauler #226). From the 1715 Fleet, with Sedwick certificate from 1998.