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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-Ortiz, ex-Sellschopp (Plate). S-L5; KM-16; Cal-839. 6.57 grams. Richly toned AXF with slightly glossy and minutely pitted surfaces, good full cross-lions-castles, center of pillars side showing full but very slightly doubled five-point star above LIM with A monogrammed in the M above crowded 1659 date, flat peripheries with solder-spots on edge from old mounting, desirable pedigree. Pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection, the Emilio Ortiz Collection (Swiss Bank Corp auction of September 1991, lot 68), and the Sellschopp Collection (Swiss Bank Corp auction of September 1988, lot 160), plated in his book Las acuñaciones de las ceca de Lima (1964).