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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, Philip IV, assayer not visible (1640s).

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Shipwreck - Silver Coins 1500s-1650s Start Price:140.00 USD Estimated At:175.00 - 250.00 USD
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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, Philip IV, assayer not visible (1640s). KM-19a. 19.74 grams. Good full cross, full but weaker shield, somewhat crudely struck but solid, the low weight not so much due to corrosion as from sub-standard manufacture during mint scandal. With Sedwick certificate from 2001. Recovered from: "San Francisco wreck," sunk ca. 1650 off the Cape Verde Islands, west of Africa