8 Reales - Philip IV

Issuer	Casa de Moneda de Potosí (Spanish Colonial)
Year	1625-1648
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Composition	Silver
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Obverse script	Latin
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Reverse description	Central device features the crowned pillars of Hercules flanking a quartered coat of arms divided by a bold cross, with castles and lions in alternating quadrants, all within a beaded inner border. The pillars, representing the Strait of Gibraltar, are each surmounted by a crown and entwined with banderoles. The surrounding peripheral legend, partially legible on the irregular hammered flan, reads ANO 1645 ET INDIARUM in Latin script. A drill-hole pierces the upper field. The overall strike is characteristically uneven, typical of macuquina (cob) coinage produced at Potosí during the mid-seventeenth century.
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Edge	Plain, irregular
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