La Capitana 8 Reales, 1653 Potosí — SubAmerica Salvage COA

• Catalogue number: DTR-00030
• Denomination: 8 Reales
• Mint: Potosí (P)
• Assayer: E — Antonio de Ergueta
• Monarch: Philip IV
• Date: Dated 1653
• Certification: Raw · XF shipwreck effect
• Wreck: La Capitana (1654), Chanduy, Ecuador
• Papers: SubAmerica Discoveries COA · Heritage provenance

A dated piece of eight from the first years after Potosí's great mint fraud, struck in the reform design that named its assayer twice. Lost on the flagship of the South Sea Armada in 1654 and recovered in the state-supervised 1996–97 SubAmerica salvage. Ships with its salvage COA and full dossier.

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A dated piece of eight from the first years after Potosí's great mint fraud, struck in the reform design that named its assayer twice. Lost on the flagship of the South Sea Armada in 1654 and recovered in the state-supervised 1996–97 SubAmerica salvage. Ships with its salvage COA and full dossier.