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Lima, Peru, crowned-1824 royalist countermark on a Lima provisional 8R 1822JP ("Peru Libre"), rare,

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Lima, Peru, crowned-1824 royalist countermark on a Lima provisional 8R 1822JP ( Peru Libre ), rare,
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Lima, Peru, crowned-1824 royalist countermark on a Lima provisional 8R 1822JP ("Peru Libre"), rare, encapsulated NGC MS 62, finest known in NGC census, Elizondo Plate Coin. KM-130 over 136. 26.9 grams. Popular Independence-period issue with full countermark near center on one side and corresponding flatness on other side, lustrous and lightly rainbow toned all over, tops at NGC by three grades, and desirable pedigree as well. NGC #2713842-006. Plate Coin on page 231 of Elizondo's Eight Reales and Pesos of the New World (1971), acquired through Bill Christensen in 1973 and reportedly from an Eastern European bank collection known to have contained specimens from the Fonrobert collection.