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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 4 reales, 1652E transitional Type III (post-transitional), 1-PH-6 at top, very

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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 4 reales, 1652E transitional Type III (post-transitional), 1-PH-6 at top, very
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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 4 reales, 1652E transitional Type III (post-transitional), 1-PH-6 at top, very rare and choice. Janson-19.2.3.; S-P37a; KM-18; CT-735. 13.3 grams. Bold and well-detailed pillars-and-waves with fat pillars, full cross-lions-castles, 2 dates and assayers, 3 mintmarks, no corrosion but some peripheral flatness, nicely toned, edge-split. Curiously, when Torrey McLean first enumerated the transitional Types in 1994, specimens of this Type were unknown and called "hypothetical" by him. The Capitana wreck brought at least 4 specimens to light, but it should still be considered very rare. From the Capitana, sunk in 1654 off Chanduy, Ecuador