Watch List notes:

Potosi, Bolivia, cob 2 reales, 1617M, Grade 1, ex-Research Collection (Plate Coin). S-P19; KM-8; CT-356. 6.72 grams. Oblong flan with boldest and fullest date imaginable, also full and bold P-M (with inexplicable TMRA in legend to left), shield and cross, king's ordinal III, nicely toned and corrosion-free, also desirable pedigree. Pedigreed to the Charles Eidel collection, with special Fisher photo-certificate #144398 and Plate Coin #188 in the Atocha Research Collection (Christie's, 1988). Recovered from: Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida ($1000-1500)