Lima, Peru, bust 8 reales, Ferdinand VII, 1816 JP, chopmarked from trade in China, NGC VF details / chopmarked, Oliveira Plate. KM-117.1; Cal-1070. Fascinating example of the use of Spanish colonial 8 reales throughout Asia with numerous bold chopmarks, most highlighted with ink, on both sides, including three small "swastikas" that are not Chinese characters and believed to have been applied in India or Indochina, plus a peanut-shaped assayers "bite" at center of obverse, most host-coin details still legible and much sharper than the details grade suggests. The book that features this coin lists a transcription of its individual chopmarks (words and meanings). Plate Coin on pages 44 and 46 of Contramarcas Chinas en las Monedas Coloniales de Hispano America Siglos XVII-XIX (1992), by Eduardo de Oliveira Cezar.
