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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, 1651E, with 2 countermarks (very rare): crowned C (rare) and crowned

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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, 1651E, with 2 countermarks (very rare): crowned C (rare) and crowned
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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, 1651E, with 2 countermarks (very rare): crowned C (rare) and crowned P (rare) on cross side. S-P36, KM-19b, CT-511. 7.9 grams. Full C countermark and most of P countermark (both rare) on nice full cross, other side heavily worn and overall very thin and underweight, oblong in shape. Pedigreed to the Louis Hudson collection. Recovered from: Capitana (Jesús María de la Limpia Concepción), sunk in 1654 off Chanduy, Ecuador