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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 4 reales, (16)50O, with 3 countermarks (very rare): crowned A flanked by column

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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 4 reales, (16)50O, with 3 countermarks (very rare): crowned A flanked by column
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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 4 reales, (16)50O, with 3 countermarks (very rare): crowned A flanked by columns of dots on shield side (very rare), crowned C (rare) and crown alone on cross side, KM Plate Coin. S-P35, KM-17b. 11.9 grams. Odd-shaped coin that rewards careful study, as the countermark on the shield at first looks like just a mess (due to interference from the host-coin details) but is actually an A flanked by three dots in a column on each side (note that all diagrammatical references so far erroneously omit these dots), also with full two clear countermarks of rare varieties on the cross side, the cross and shield full and uncorroded. Pedigreed to the Ponterio Capitana auction, lot 41 (Plate Coin), and pedigreed to the Louis Hudson collection and Plate Coin in KM (#C17.5). Recovered from: Capitana (Jesús María de la Limpia Concepción), sunk in 1654 off Chanduy, Ecuador