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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1/2 real, Charles-Joanna, assayer F, extremely rare.

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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1/2 real, Charles-Joanna, assayer F, extremely rare.
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1/2 real, Charles-Joanna, assayer F, extremely rare. 1.6 grams. Choice specimen with full legends in a mix of Gothic and Latin letters, full inner details in an elegant style (pillars side with P to left, S to right, and P in middle), lovely contrasting toning, VF+ for wear, and of the utmost rarity, summed up nicely in the Ray Byrne Caribbees sale in 1975 (Jess Peters) for one of the two specimens he had: "it took Ray 15 years to discover this specimen, 6 more to locate the following lot, and not even rumors of a third piece to provoke interest, with more readily available coins being touted in the 1/4 million dollar range" (and note the better of Ray's 2 examples sold for $2000 in 1975 dollars!). Estrella's 1979 book Monedas Dominicanas cites 6 examples, and surely a few more are out there, but ours is the first we have seen on the market in decades.