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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, 1654 E, retrograde 4 in date (rare), PH at top, Mastalir Plate.

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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, 1654 E, retrograde 4 in date (rare), PH at top, Mastalir Plate.
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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, 1654 E, retrograde 4 in date (rare), PH at top, Mastalir Plate. S-P37a; KM-21. 23.85 grams. Choice pillars side with bold PH at top and 54 date with 4 in retrograde (only three known of this variety, according to Mastalir), the cross corroded, doubled, and slightly off-center (top not visible to determine variety) but with bold 654 date below, deeply toned all over. Plate Coin I.3.ad.-x on page 151 of Robert Mastalir's The Great Transition at the Potosi Mint 1649-1653 / The Post-Transitional Coinage of 1653-1659 (2023), with original (generic) Herman Moro certificate. Recovered from: Capitana, sunk in 1654 off Chanduy, Ecuador