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Panama, cob 2 reales, Philip II, assayer oB to left, mintmark AP above denomination II to right, no

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Panama, cob 2 reales, Philip II, assayer oB to left, mintmark AP above denomination II to right, no
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Panama, cob 2 reales, Philip II, assayer oB to left, mintmark AP above denomination II to right, no Aragon in shield, very rare, NGC AU 53, finest known in NGC census, ex-Richard Stuart, Plate Coin in KM, COAC 1988, Proctor, and Plowman. S-AP4; KM-3.2; Cal-363. 6.65 grams. Choice full shield and cross with choice deep toning over crisp details, much legend, full assayer and mintmark and denomination, die variety with small lions on reverse and no Aragon in shield (which Proctor points out is a tell-tale aspect of this novice mint), one of four known. Pedigreed to the Richard Stuart collection and to the Freeman Craig auction of November 1981 (lot 445), also Plate Coin in multiple references, as follows: page 441 of Spain, Portugal and the New World (2002), by Krause-Mishler; Figure 7 of The Coinage of El Peru (proceedings of the ANS's Coinage of the Americas Conference, October 1988, in a presentation by Barry W. Stallard); 2R.3B on page 142 of The Forgotten Mint of Colonial Panama (2005), by Jorge Proctor; and 2R.Bo.B on pages 60-61 of Panamanian Numismatics 1501-1903 (2022), by David S. Plowman.
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