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2 Reales - Felipe IV Provisional countermarked coinage
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1663 |
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| Composition | Silver (.931) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned quartered shield of the Spanish Royal Arms in the hammered cob style, displaying the castles of Castile and lions of León in alternating quarters, with a central pomegranate at the base. The irregularly shaped host flan, typical of macuquina (cob) coinage, is struck with a beaded border partially visible around the periphery. The die impression is characteristically off-center and uneven, consistent with the hand-struck production method of colonial South American mints. A hole is present at the lower left of the flan, a common feature encountered on circulated cob coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Lima, Peru (1565-date) Potosi, Bolivia (1572-1953) |
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