Watch List notes:

Potosi, Bolivia, cob 8 reales Royal (galano), 1712 Y, rare, NGC VF details / scratches, finest and only example in NGC census, Lazaro Plate Coin. S-P43a; KM-R31; Cal-1484. 26.37 grams. Broad flan with full legends and inner details (amazing contrast to the previous and following lots!), the cross doubled but with impressive four-digit date below, attractively toned and particularly rare as lacking a hole, the old scratches noted by NGC hardly noticeable without magnification, pictured in Lazaro as #255 (rarity R3). NGC #5779587-007. Plate Coin on page 333 of Lazaro's Los redondos de Lima, Mejico y Potosi (1996).
($4000-6000)