^Lot 895 Bogota, Colombia, cob 1/2 real, 1702, no assayer (Arce), Charles II posthumous with Philip V monogra

Bogota, Colombia, cob 1/2 real, 1702, no assayer (Arce), Charles II posthumous with Philip V monogram, unique. Restrepo-M54.1; S-B11; KM-B8; Cal-324 (under Ph. V). 1.51 grams. The Bogota coinage of the period of 1700-2 is rather chaotic, providing for an interesting study in gold but with very little silver known. Many of the coins show both Charles II (posthumous) and the new king Philip V in the legends. This currently unique discovery piece has a full and bold but off-center Philip monogram with clear -LVS II for Charles II in the legend on that side, the cross also bold and off-center (with castles and lions in proper quadrants) enabling a bold HISP- but also a nearly full final digit 2 of the date followed by a full ornament x in the legend, first we have seen or heard of, AXF with deeply toned fields. Pedigreed to the Gran Colombia collection.