Chile 1823-So FI peso
This specimen was lot 20083 in Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $3,840. The catalog description[1] noted, "CHILE. Peso, 1823-SoFI. NGC EF-45. VERY SCARCE date. Second finest graded at NGC or PCGS with the finest being an AU50. Bold strike with nice even attractive dark tone and loads of eye appeal. From the Alex Siegel Collection." This issue, the "volcano peso," is one of the most popular South American crowns. It was struck regularly between 1817 and 1834 in some numbers but is hotly pursued in auctions. It is the first coin to bear the word "peso." Colonial eight reales were commonly called pesos in everyday usage but are marked "8 R." The 1817-FJ is the most frequently encountered of the series. The volcano design also appears on silver half, one and two reales of 1833-34.
Recorded mintage: 45,000.
Specification: 27.07 g, 0.903 fine silver, .786 troy oz ASW, 39.5 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-82.2.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
Links to:
- 1816 8 reales
- 1822-FI peso
- 1823 8 escudos
- 1825-I peso
- Coins and currency dated 1823
- return to coins of Chile
