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''Specification:'' 1.69 g, 0.917 fine silver, this specimen 1.71 g. | ''Specification:'' 1.69 g, 0.917 fine silver, this specimen 1.71 g. | ||
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Revision as of 21:20, 17 September 2021
This specimen was lot 44066 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $80. The catalog description[1] noted, "BOLIVIA. 1/2 Real, 1741-P. Potosi Mint. Philip V. PCGS VF-25 Gold Shield. Obverse: monogram with date below; reverse: cross cantoned with lions and castles. For a type with a low catalog value, auction records are remarkably sparse with none of this date offered in nearly a decade." The specimen shown is a 1741 cob half real from the Potosi mint in Bolivia. The Potosi 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 This type was struck 1729-47 and superseded an earlier type (KM 27) which was 0.931 fine silver. Assayer's initials were not used on this denomination, presumably for lack of space. 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 Potosi mint was the last to abandon the manufacture of cobs, in 1773.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.69 g, 0.917 fine silver, this specimen 1.71 g.
Catalog reference: Cayón-8295, KM-27a; Cal-Type 82#604.
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- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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