View source for Peru 1702-L H 8 reales

[[Image:Sed34-0303o.jpg|300px|thumb|Sedwick sale 34, lot 303]]
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This specimen was lot 303 in Sedwick sale 34 (Winter Park, FL, November 2023), where it sold for $1,200. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Lima, [[Peru]], cob 8 reales, 1702 H. Choice example with full pillars-and-waves containing a bold date and both assayers in addition to mintmark, also good full cross with second mintmark and third assayer flanking and second date below, just off-center enough to show a full PHILIPPVS V in legend (with old scratch there), deeply toned but only minimally corroded. Recovered from: ''Association'', sunk in 1707 off the Isles of Scilly, southwest of England." Cob eight reales were struck at the Lima mint 1701-46 for Philip V of Spain and became the "pieces of eight" of pirate lore. Specimens with legible dates bring triple those without. The fineness was lowered from 0.931 to 0.917 in 1728.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 27.07 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 25.90 grams. 

''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-9172]], S-L15a; KM-34; Cal-1273. 

''[[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.
* Menzel, Sewall, ''Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins'', New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
* Michael, Thomas, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016. 
* <sup>[1]</sup>Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia, Cori Sedwick Downing and Connor Falk, ''Treasure Auction 34, World, U.S Coins and Paper Money,'' Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2023.

''Link to:''
* [[Peru 1701-L H 8 reales|1701-L H 8 reales]]
* [[Peru 1702-L H 2 reales|1702 2 reales]]
* [[Peru 1702-L H 4 reales|1702 4 reales]]
* [[Bolivia 1702-P Y 8 reales]]
* [[Mexico 1702-Mo L 8 reales]]
* [[Peru 1702-L H 2 escudos|1702 2 escudos]]
* [[Peru 1702-L H 4 escudos|1702 4 escudos]]
* [[Peru 1702-L H 8 escudos|1702 8 escudos]]
* [[Peru 1703-L H 8 reales|1703 8 reales]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1702]]

[[Category: Silver pesos of Latin America]][[Category:Selections from Sedwick sale 34]][[Category: Cob coinage of Latin America and Spain]]