Colombia 1780-P SF 2 escudos
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This specimen was lot 40183 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Philadelphia, August 2018), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "COLOMBIA. 1780-SF 2 Escudos. Popayán mint. Carlos III (1759-1788). EF Detail — Cleaned (PCGS). Light yellow with orange highlights and blushes of rose, but a bit too bright from an old cleaning. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian Coins." This type was struck at Nuevo Reino (Bogotá) and Popayán 1772-84 and is probably the most common two escudos of colonial Latin America.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.77 g, 0.901 fine gold, .196 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: Cayón-12497, KM 49.2, Fr-40, Restrepo 62.18.
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- 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.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The August 2018 Philadelphia ANA Auction: World Coins and Selections from the El Dorado Collection of Colombian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Restrepo, Jorge Emilio, Monedas de Colombia, 1619-2006, Medellin, Colombia, Impresiones Rojo: 2006.
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