^Lot 688 PERU, Lima, cob 8 reales, 1725 M, Louis I, cross-of-five-dots at top, rare, ex-Ugaz, Bustos Plate.

PERU, Lima, cob 8 reales, 1725 M, Louis I, cross-of-five-dots at top, rare, ex-Ugaz, Bustos Plate. Bustos-L8R-25 (this coin); S-L20a; KM-39; Cal-38. 26.74 grams. Full pillars-and-waves and cross-lions-castles despite typical peripheral flatness yet with bottom of IC of king's name LVDOVICVS visible, two clear dates, three mintmarks, VF with low-contrast toning, traces of surface porosity. Pedigreed to the Jorge Ugaz Collection, the UBS auction of November 2000 (lot 2150), and the ANE (Calicó) auction of June 1974 (lot 537), also Plate Coin on page 46 of Alejandro Bustos' book Amonedación de Luis Fernando I (2024).