Bolivia 1682-P V 2 reales
This specimen was lot 644 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 27 (Winter Park, FL, May 2020), where it sold for $333.20. The catalog description[1] noted, "Potosi, Bolivia, cob 2 reales, 1682V. Broad flan with slightly crude edge (as made), choice full pillars-and-waves and nearly full cross-lions-castles, two bold dates and three assayers, very choice grade (non-toned AU+)." Royals are known of this type from the Potosi mint but all are rare. The regular cob issues are not nearly as nice. The years 1649-52 were a period of reform at the Potosi mint; it was found that the previous mintmasters in office 1625-48 had been debasing the cobs, a crime for which one official paid with his life.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.77 grams, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 6.42 grams.
Catalog reference: Cayón-7349 (assayer VR), S-P39; KM-24; Cal-410.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- 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 Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
- Menzel, Sewall, Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins, New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
- [1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia and Cori Sedwick Downing, Treasure Auction 27, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2020.
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