View source for Bolivia 1848-PTS FM 8 soles

[[Image:SA50-1260.jpg|550px|thumb|Stephen Album sale 50, lot 1260]]

This specimen was lot 1260 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $120. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Bolivia
|BOLIVIA]]: Republic, AR 8 soles, 1848, assayer FM, Potosi Mint, once lightly cleaned, XF-AU, ex Almer H. Orr III Collection." This type was struck 1848-51 and this is a common date. The eight soles with Bolivar facing right is scarce.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 27 g, 0.903 fine silver.

''Catalog reference:'' KM-109.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Almanzar, Alcedo, and Dale Seppa, ''Coins of Bolivia, 1820-1970,'' San Antonio, TX: 1970.
* Elizondo, Carlos A., ''Eight Reales and Pesos of the New World,'' San Antonio, TX: 1968.
* Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
* Raymond, Wayte, ''The Silver Dollars of North and South America, 2nd Ed.,'' Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1964.
* <sup>[1]</sup>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.

''Links to:''
* [[Bolivia 1847-PTS R 8 soles|1847 8 soles]]
* [[Bolivia 1848-PTS M 8 soles|1848-PTS M 8 soles, Bolivar right]]
* [[Bolivia 1849-PTS FM 8 soles|1849 8 soles]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1848]]

[[Category:Selections from Stephen Album sale 50]][[Category:Silver pesos of Latin America]]