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Oruro, Bolivia, 1 sol, 1849, Belzu, PCGS AU details / tooled, gold plated.

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Oruro, Bolivia, 1 sol, 1849, Belzu, PCGS AU details / tooled, gold plated.
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Oruro, Bolivia, 1 sol, 1849, Belzu, PCGS AU details / tooled, gold plated. Burnett-29A but coin axis; Fonrobert-9782 but coin axis. Obverse with Cerro de Socabon with church to left and sun to right within wreath under legend CERRO DE. SOCN.; reverse with GRATITUD / AL SOR. Pe: / [script] MYB. with legend REPUBLICA BOLIVIANA at top and .OR.1S.1849.JM. across bottom, the latter being the Oruro mintmark (monogram), denomination 1 sol, date and assayer, hence unquestionably intended to circulate as a coin, reinforced by the fact that this piece also has coin axis, unlike all other known specimens; reeded edge. Uneven and slightly off-center strike with some weak areas in the peripheries and a diagnostic die-break on each side, some adjustment marks on reverse but also some old scratches through the (otherwise intact) plating, no doubt to show in its time that it is not a gold coin (considering that "1S" could alternately stand for 1 scudo, albeit not known from this mint), a rare enough issue as it is (KM says "approximately 35 to 45 pieces estimated to exist") but very much so as unholed, for which KM says "so rare that no clear price range is yet established." PCGS #32915151 The Whittier Collection of Bolivian Monetary Medals