372, Lot: 608. Estimate $150. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BOLIVIA, Colonial (as Alto Perú). Felipe III. King of Spain, 1598-1621. AR 8 Reales (36.5mm, 25.86 g, 10h). Potosí mint; Juan Muñoz, assayer. [Dated 1616 or 1617]. Crowned coat-of-arms; P/M to left / Arms within polylobe; lion and castle transposed. Menzel Po-174 var. (not recorded for 8 real). VF, sea salvaged, date illegible as usual.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Atocha Treasure (includes incorrect Mel Fisher ticket, Inv. 85A-198171).