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PERU, Lima, gold cob 8 escudos, 1709 M, legend ending in HISPANIA, rare, NGC MS 62 (1715 Fleet Shipw

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PERU, Lima, gold cob 8 escudos, 1709 M, legend ending in HISPANIA, rare, NGC MS 62 (1715 Fleet Shipw
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PERU, Lima, gold cob 8 escudos, 1709 M, legend ending in HISPANIA, rare, NGC MS 62 (1715 Fleet Shipwreck Label), ex-McGregor. S-L28; Cal-2116; KM-38.1; Fr-7. 26.90 grams. Perfectly centered strike with choice full cross-lions-castles and pillars-and-waves plus nearly full legends including complete PHILIPPVS V (the ordinal quite prominent), also choice full crown, muted luster, traces of encrustation in crevices. From the 1715 Fleet (recovered by "Mo" Molinar on the Douglass Beach site in 1988), with Sedwick photo-certificate and Philip Flemming photo-certificate from 2013, pedigreed to the McGregor Collection (stated on label).
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