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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 4 reales, (1649)O, with 2 countermarks (very rare): crowned L on shield side (r

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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 4 reales, (1649)O, with 2 countermarks (very rare): crowned L on shield side (r
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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 4 reales, (1649)O, with 2 countermarks (very rare): crowned L on shield side (rare) and crowned (?) on cross side. S-P35, KM-17b, CT-731. 13.8 grams. Bold and deep countermark on shield, which is not the usual place for the L countermark, nice upper half of unattributed mark on cross, sold coin with no corrosion, nice toning. Pedigreed to the Louis Hudson collection. Recovered from: Capitana (Jesús María de la Limpia Concepción), sunk in 1654 off Chanduy, Ecuador