Mexico ½ Real, Charles II — Unidentified-Wreck Salvage
- Catalogue number: DTR-2024517
- Denomination: ½ Real
- Mint: Mexico City (oM)
- Assayer: NV (per salvage COA)
- Monarch: Charles II
- Date: 1668–1701
- Weight: 1.19 g
- Certification: Raw
- Wreck: Unidentified wreck — sold exactly as documented
- Papers: Salvage COA #2024517 as photographed
The empire's smallest silver, sea-salvaged and papered by an unidentified-wreck COA — and sold as exactly that. Half reales were the coins that bought bread; survivors this documented are scarcer than their price suggests.
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The empire's smallest silver, sea-salvaged and papered by an unidentified-wreck COA — and sold as exactly that. Half reales were the coins that bought bread; survivors this documented are scarcer than their price suggests.