CNG 99, Lot: 970. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOLIVIA, Colonial (as Alto Perú). Carlos III. King of Spain, 1759-1788. AR 8 Reales (41mm, 27.05 g, 11h). Potosí mint; Jose de Bargas Flores and Raimundo de Iturriaga, assayers. Dated 1774 (PTS) JR. · CAROLUS · III · DEI · GRATIA ·, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; 1774 below / · HISPAN · ET IND · REX · (PTS) · 8R · J · R ·, crowned coat-of-arms flanked by crowned composite columns with encircling banner inscribed PLUS VLTRA. Elizondo 11; ME 12024; KM 55. UNC.