Watch List notes:

Spanish Colonial, Viceroyalty of Peru, pillar type 8 reales, 1765, Santiago mint, assayer j, die axis ??, 26.51g (Calicó 1004, 'Rarísima'), some flan imperfections as usual for early Santiago silver, edge drilled at top and bottom to allow swivel-mounting into a brooch (enabling display of either side), otherwise generally very fine and excessively rare. This is a recently re-discovered example of the 1765 j pillar 8 reales, of which very few specimens are known to have survived. It may be noted that the coin is struck from the same obverse die as the piece sold by Áureo & Calicó, 29 November 2012, lot 100, and from a similar reverse die. The old silver brooch-mount made to carry the coin is also included in the lot (see illustration below).
(5000-10000 GBP)