Watch List notes:

Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales, Philip II, assayer M to left, very rare, Yriarte, Sellschopp, Grunthal-Sellschopp and Calico Plate Coin, ex-von Schuckmann. S-P2; KM-5.1; CT-141 (under Lima). 26.81 grams. An impressive coin, one of the most highly pedigreed cobs we have ever seen, typically broad and with much legend and crown, full but weaker inner details that are slightly doubled, making the assayer a bit hard to make out (in fact listed in Calico as assayer L) but its attribution made certain by die-match with others, with particularly clear DEI,G,ISPANIARVM and bottom loop of crown, richly toned AVF. Pedigreed to the Sellschopp collection (SBC auction of September 1988, lot #39) and the von Schuckmann collection (Renaissance auction of December 2001, with original lot-tag #3004), and shown as Plate Coin in all of the following reference books: #911 in Yriarte's Catalogo de los reales de a ocho (1965); #28 in Sellschopp's Las acunaciones de las cecas de Lima, La Plata y Potosi (1971); #21 in Grunthal & Sellschopp's The Coinage of Peru (1978); #161 in Calico's Numismatica espanola (2008). (Estimate: $1000 - 2000)