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PERU, Lima, cob 2 reales, 1659 V, mintmark * above LIMA, V to left and 2 to right, very rare, ex-Pon

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PERU, Lima, cob 2 reales, 1659 V, mintmark * above LIMA, V to left and 2 to right, very rare, ex-Pon
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PERU, Lima, cob 2 reales, 1659 V, mintmark * above LIMA, V to left and 2 to right, very rare, ex-Ponte, ex-"Jupiter Wreck" (1659). S-L5; KM-16; Cal-839. 6.55 grams. Exceptionally bold (albeit off-center) full pillars-and-waves with •V• to left, five-point star above LIM with A monogrammed into M above crowded 1659 date in center, and •2• to right, full cross-lions-castles, peripheries flat, deeply toned UNC with minute surface pitting, still probably the finest extant. Pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection and to the "Jupiter wreck" (San Miguel el Arcangel, 1659), also pedigreed to Sedwick Auction 5 (lot 261) and Sedwick Auction 16 (lot 498).