Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Louis I or Philip V, assayer D. 24.31 grams. Bold oMD, otherwise crude and flat, some edge loss to corrosion but surfaces fairly smooth, toned all over. With generic certificate, pedigreed to the Ponterio auction of February 1997, with original lot-tag #955. Recovered from: Vliegenthart, sunk in 1735 off Zeeland, the Netherlands
Estimate: $100