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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, (16Z)IIIIP (1624 date), quadrants of cross transposed, possibly uniqu

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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, (16Z)IIIIP (1624 date), quadrants of cross transposed, possibly uniqu
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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, (16Z)IIIIP (1624 date), quadrants of cross transposed, possibly unique. S-P23. 25.8 grams. Faintly visible at 11 o'clock on the cross side of this coin are 4 Roman numeral I's, which is how the date was known to have been rendered for 1623 but was unknown till now for the date 1624, which is the year a major dam break in Potosí virtually halted production. The dates 1624-5 are in fact unknown in any publications except for a single 1624 specimen that we believe was tooled. The present specimen (lightly toned Fine) has a lot of diagnostic detail in the full shield and cross; also a full P+P, but therein lies a dilemma, for all the specimens past 1622 were thought to show P•P instead. Despite some minor flat spots, overall the strike is much better than usual for this mysterious period.