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[[Image:Bolivia Sed27-642.jpg|550px|thumb|Sedwick sale 27, lot 642]]

This specimen was lot 642 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 27 (Winter Park, FL, May 2020), where it sold for $202.30. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Potosi, [[Bolivia]], cob 4 reales, 1767V-(Y). Bold date and one full pillar (off-center), very high-relief cross on a chunky flan with sharply cut edges (as made), two full assayers, nicely toned AXF with surface roughness on opposing sides per the period." 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 1760-73 for Charles III. The other Latin American mints placed the date near the edge where it rarely struck up, whereas Potosi issues have the date smack in the middle, ensuring that the date would be legible even if the rest of the design was smeared. As a result, Bolivian cobs can be collected by date, unlike the other mints (Mexico, Lima, Guatemala). The Potosí mint was the last to abandon the manufacture of cobs, in 1773.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 13.54 grams, 0.917 fine silver, this specimen 13.36 grams.   
''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-11720]], S-P57; KM-44; Cal-911. 
 
''[[Bibliography|Source:]]'' 
* Michael, Thomas, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
* 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.
* 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 27,'' Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2020.

''Links to:''
* [[Bolivia 1766-P VY 4 reales|1766 4 reales]]
* [[Bolivia 1767-P VY real|1767 cob real]]
* [[Bolivia 1767-PTS JR real|1767 real, pillar]]
* [[Bolivia 1767-P V-Y 2 reales|1767 cob 2 reales]]
* [[Bolivia 1767-PTS JR 2 reales|1767 2 reales, pillar]]
* [[Bolivia 1767-PTS JR 4 reales|1767 4 reales, pillar]]
* [[Guatemala 1767-G P 4 Reales]]
* [[Mexico 1766-Mo MF 4 reales]]
* [[Bolivia 1767-PTS JR 8 reales|1767 8 reales, pillar]]
* [[Bolivia 1768-P VY 4 reales|1768 cob 4 reales]]
* [[Bolivia 1768-PTS JR 4 reales|1768 pillar 4 reales]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1767]]
* return to coins of [[Bolivia]]

[[Category:Cob coinage of Latin America and Spain]][[Category:Selections from Sedwick sale 27]]