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[[Image:Sed28-581o.jpg|300px|thumb|Sedwick Treasure Auction 28, lot 581]]
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This specimen was lot 581 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 28 (Winter Park, FL, November 2020), where it sold for $780. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Potosí, [[Bolivia]], cob 4 reales, Philip II, assayer L (1st period) below mintmark P to left, top-right lion punched over castle on reverse. Round and well-centered example of the earliest assayer-L issues, the obverse (with bold full crown showing lower loop and bold legend showing ISPANIARVM without H) a die-match with Sellschopp #56 (ISP) but the reverse (with Seville lions, the top-right one punched over a castle) not a known die, lightly toned VF+ overall. Pedigreed to our Auction 17, with original lot-tag #834 (trimmed to fit small flips)." This early type comes with numerous assayers (A, B, B/R, C, D, L, M, R) and varieties.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 13.54 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 13.72 grams. 

''Catalog reference:'' S-P3; KM-4.2; Cal-522, [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-3778]].

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* 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. 
* Krause, Chester L., and Colin R. Bruce II, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins: [[Spain]], Portugal and the New World'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002.
* Menzel, Sewall, ''Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins,'' New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia and Cori Sedwick Downing, ''Treasure Auction 28, featuring the Dr. Peter Jones and John O'Brien collections,'' Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2020.

''Link to:''
* [[Bolivia (1574-76)-P R 4 reales|(1574-76)-P R 4 reales]]
* [[Bolivia (1576-78)-P L 2 reales]]
* [[Bolivia (1577-85)-P B 4 reales]]
* [[Bolivia (1577-78)-P C 4 reales]]
* [[Peru (1577-88)-P *oD 4 reales]]
* [[Bolivia (1574-79)-P L 8 reales]]
* [[Bolivia (1575-76)-P M 4 reales|(1575-76)-M 4 reales]]
* [[Bolivia (1577-85)-P B 8 reales|(1577-85)-B 8 reales]]
* [[Bolivia (1577-85)-P C 8 reales|(1577-85)-C 8 reales]]
* [[Bolivia (1578-82)-P L real|(1578-82)-L real]]
* [[Bolivia (1578-95)-P B 4 reales|(1578-95)-B 4 reales]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1577]]

[[Category:Cob coinage of Latin America and Spain]][[Category:Selections from Sedwick sale 28]]