Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales Royal (galano), 1702Y, with Guatemala sun-over-mountains (Type II, 1839) countermark on cross, ex-Stuart. S-P43a; KM-R31; CT-803. 26.62 grams. Broad flan for the era, also more even than usual with full legends and inner details and minimal flatness and doubling, VF with light golden toning on fields, holed to left of cross (about 7 o'clock on pillars side), very deeply impressed AU countermark (small edge-split there too), die-match with Lazaro #241 (R3). Pedigreed to the Richard Stuart collection.
(4000 - 6000 USD)