Chile 1793 1/4 real

from the San Dimas Collection

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This scarce and tiny coin was struck in Santiago, Chile, 1793 only. This mint switched to the conventional "lions and castles" type in 1796. The other colonial mints struck "lions and castles" quarter reales only. The catalog value is much too low for this type, which appears in auctions once a year or so.

Recorded mintage: 224,000.

Specification: .84 g, 0.896 fine silver, .024 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: Cayón-13123 (without mintmark), KM 56.

Source:

• Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
• Calicó, Xavier, Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.

Link to:

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