VENEZUELA: AR 2 reales, Caracas, year "142", Cr-13.1, assayer LM, struck by the Royalist or Republican forces 1810-21, lovely strike on remarkably round planchet, NGC graded VF30. These were among the first issues of the provisional Caracas mint, which had started operations in 1812 by issuing coins imitating the Lima cobs (macuquinas) then found in circulation, hence the LM initials as on the present example.
Estimate: 500- 600 USD