Bolivia 1742-P P 4 reales
This specimen was lot 1483 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $660. The catalog description[1] noted, "BOLIVIA: Felipe V, 1700-1746, AR 4 reales, 1742-P, cob, nearly full cross, clear date and denomination, a choice example, NGC graded MS61, R. The finest graded example at NGC." Two assayers are known for 1742: assayer C (1742-44) and assayer P (1740-42). The type is not rare but is less often seen than the eight reales. The Potosí mint was the most prolific issuer of silver during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, nearly all of it cobs such as this. This type was struck 1729-47 and superseded an earlier type (KM 29) which was 0.931 fine silver.
Recorded mintage: unknown (assayers P and C).
Specification: 13.54 g, 0.917 fine silver, this specimen 13.39 g.
Catalog reference: Cayón-9140, KM-30a.
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- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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