Chile 1956 100 pesos
This specimen was lot 34384 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $1,320. The catalog description[1] noted, "CHILE. 100 Pesos, 1956-So. Santiago Mint. PCGS MS-65. Pale golden in color and with some subtle hints of cherry, this entrancing Gem presents a great deal of radiant brilliance and lustrous allure. Quite pleasing and offering a solid overall strike as well." The specimen shown is an example of a type first struck in Santiago, Chile, in 1926. It was issued steadily 1932-80 with no pretense of it being a circulating coin, especially after the peso had been dropped in favor of the escudo in 1960. It was and is a bullion coin, along with a similar gold twenty pesos (KM 168) and fifty pesos (KM 169). The type is common but the recent bold rise in the price of gold has made this coin expensive.
Specification: 20.34 g, 0.900 fine gold, 31 mm diameter.
Recorded Mintage: 60,000.
Catalog reference: Fr-54; KM-175.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [2]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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