146716430577
Description:
BOLIVIA, Potosi, cob 8 reales, 1654 E, with PH above pillars, NGC VF details / sea salvaged / Capitana (Shipwreck Blue Label).
16.89 grams. Corroded yet solid with thin edge crack as made, some pillars and cross detail including two full dates. (NGC #6532499-007)
From the Capitana (1654), pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection, Plate Coin on page 32 of Mastalir's The Great Transition at the Potosí Mint 1649-1652: The 1649-1652 Crowned Shield Coinage and the Countermarks of 1652, Part A: The 1649-1652 Crowned Shield Coinage (2021) and on page 70 of Part B: The Countermarks of 1652.
Code: 052320111006