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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales Royal, 1652E post-transitional (Transitional Type VIII/B), 1-PH-6 at t

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Cobs - Potosi Silver Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD
Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales Royal, 1652E post-transitional (Transitional Type VIII/B), 1-PH-6 at t
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Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales Royal, 1652E post-transitional (Transitional Type VIII/B), 1-PH-6 at top, with sun-over-mountains countermark (Guatemala, Type II, 1839) on cross, rare, ex-Boyd, Plate Coin in Dasi. S-P37a; KM-21 ;CT-434. 26.21 grams. Old-toned VF with impressive pedigree, full and well-centered inner details, the legends somewhat doubled but with clear third date, small natural lacuna at bottom of cross, tiny hole at edge at top of cross, full but crude (F) countermark, perfectly round and a clear example of how special coins go from one major collection to another over the generations. Similar to Lazaro #133 but different dies. Pedigreed to the Superior auction of August 1975 (F.C.C. Boyd collection, lot #1753) and to the Galerie des Monnaies auction of February 1982 (lot #86) and Plate Coin on page 177 of Tomas Dasi's Estudio de los Reales de a Ocho (1950).