Peru 1700-L H 2 reales
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This specimen was lot 1332 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $960. The catalog description[1] noted, "PERU: Carlos II, 1665-1700, AR 2 reales cob, 1700-L, assayer H, with two clear dates, VF-XF." Cob two reales were struck at the Lima mint 1684-1700 for Charles II of Spain and became the "two bits" of pirate lore. Specimens with legible dates bring triple those without.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.77 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 4.36 g.
Catalog reference: Cayón-7420, KM-21.
- Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
- Calicó, Xavier, Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Felipe VI, 1474 a 2020, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2019.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Menzel, Sewall, Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins, New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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