Capitana Shipwreck BOLIVIA Potosí Silver Cob 8 Reales 1651 O C/M Ex-Mastalir
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- Category : Shipwreck Coins
- Certification : Uncertified
- Circulated/Uncirculated : Circulated
- Composition : Silver
- Country/Region of Manufacture : Bolivia
- Denomination : 8 reales
- Grade : Ungraded
- Shipwreck : Capitana, sunk in 1654
- Year : 1651
Description:
BOLIVIA, Potosí, cob 8 reales, 1651 (modern 5) O, with crowned-O and crowned-arms countermarks on cross (very rare with two countermarks), ex-Capitana, Mastalir Plate.
S-P35; KM-19b; Cal-1489. 20.29 grams. Corroded (especially in peripheries) but with clear full shield and cross (VF details), king's ordinal IIII, date in normal position with dots between digits, the first countermark deep and full in center of cross and the other also deep but typically partial and clinging to the edge at bottom left, mostly toned, edge-split.
From the Capitana (1654), pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection, Plate Coin on page 120 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 185 of Part B: The Countermarks of 1652.
Code: 052404191060