BOLIVIA, Colonial (as Alto Perú). Carlos II. King of Spain, 1665-1700. AR 8 Reales (41mm, 26.79 g, 5h). Royal presentation strike (Redondo). Cob type. Potosí mint. Dated 1669/8 P E. Crowned coat-of-arms / Crowned Pillars of Hercules set on ocean waves. Lázaro 181 (same obv. die); Menzel Po-288; ME 7543; Calicó y Trigo 344; KM R26. In NGC encapsulation 8405751-001, graded XF Details, plugged. A rare royal presentation piece. Ex Áureo & Calicó 387 (17 March 2022), lot 160; Isabel de Trastámara Collection (Áureo & Calicó 302, 13 December 2017), lot 371; Cayón (6 July 2016), lot 840; Cayón (21 January 2011), lot 3230.Many assayers at the Spanish crowns new world mints struck “royal” or “presentation” pieces. Particular care was taken in the striking of these coins, which generally exhibit full or nearly full legends and careful, well-centered strikes. Often found holed, these coins, “...give an idea of what the mints were actually capable of doing when they devoted the necessary effort to minting full-design, high-quality cob coins” (Menzel p. 31) The final winners of all Triton XXIX lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 13-14 January 2026.Triton XXIX – Session Four – Lot 920-1141 will be held Wednesday afternoon, 14 January 2026 beginning at 2:00 PM ET.Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyers fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.
