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Mexico City, Mexico, bust 8 reales, Charles III, 1781 FF, with reverse imprint from another 8R on ob

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Mexico City, Mexico, bust 8 reales, Charles III, 1781 FF, with reverse imprint from another 8R on ob
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Mexico City, Mexico, bust 8 reales, Charles III, 1781 FF, with reverse imprint from another 8R on obverse. KM-106.2; Cal-1121; Yonaka-M8.81. 24.32 grams. XF details with light surface corrosion and toning all over, a bit bent but with the cause manifest as the mirror imprint of the reverse of another 8R (from the time of mintage?) showing REX and mintmark oM, first such example we have seen. Pedigreed to the Mike Carulli Collection. Recovered from: Hartwell, sunk in 1787 off the Cape Verde Islands, west of Africa