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From Atocha Shipwreck

LOT 3722

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040


Bolivia, Colonial (as Alto Peru). Felipe II, King of Spain AR 8 Reales. 1556-1598.

Potosí mint; uncertain date. Assayer A. Cob issue. Crowned Hapsburg coat-of-arms; P A to left, O VIII to right / Arms of Castille and Leon in quarters of Jerusalem cross, all within ornate quadrilobe. S P11; KM 5.1; Cal 674. 26.84gr, 38mm, 4h.

Very Fine. Double obverse struck. Very rare assayer.

PROVENANCE:
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

FOOTNOTES:
Likely recovered 1985 from Atocha Shipwreck.

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