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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, (1649)O, with 2 countermarks (very rare) on cross: arms and rare vari

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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, (1649)O, with 2 countermarks (very rare) on cross: arms and rare vari
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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, (1649)O, with 2 countermarks (very rare) on cross: arms and rare variety of crown-alone countermark. S-P35; KM-19b; CT-506. 26.3 grams. Broad flan that appears to have an appendage where the arms countermark was applied, full shield with P-O to left and denomination 8 to right, full cross with full crown countermark, solid and uncorroded (some flatness), nicely toned. Recovered from: Capitana, sunk in 1654 off Chanduy, Ecuador