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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, Philip III, P-box-T, denomination o-V-III (3 separate lines), lions r

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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, Philip III, P-box-T, denomination o-V-III (3 separate lines), lions r
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Potosí, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, Philip III, P-box-T, denomination o-V-III (3 separate lines), lions rotated in cross, Plate Coin in Research Collection catalog. S-P21, KM-10. 25.8 grams. Very strange and well-preserved coin with 6 uneven sides (thick flan), full shield with big P mintmark above solid box to left, denomination O-V-III to left, also full cross with quadrants transposed and lions rotated clockwise 90 degrees from normal, no corrosion at all. Pedigreed to the Research Collection, with special Fisher photo-certificate #85A-236896, Plate Coin #228. Recovered from: Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida