Ecuador 1841-MV A 8 escudos
This specimen was lot 11365 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $19,200. The catalog description[1] noted,
"Lovely 1841-MVA 8 Escudos. Large Planchet. ECUADOR. 1841-MVA 8 Escudos. Quito mint. AU-58 (PCGS). Splashes of coppery toning across the obverse, more notable and widespread on the reverse, add a look of originality to deeply lustrous and very attractive surfaces. Good cartwheel is present on both sides, some reflectivity apparent on the reverse, extremely well struck throughout. Some trivial laminations are seen along the rim above the space between REPUBLICA and DEL on the reverse, but no significant post striking flaws are seen, just some subtle hairlines and a single thin vertical scratch near the left peak. An especially handsome specimen of this date, the only date among this design type absent from the Eliasberg Collection, which contained neither the large planchet variety (as here) nor the small planchet variety seen in the following lot. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins. From Stack's 1976 American Numismatic Association sale, August 1976, lot 2123."
This type was struck 1838-41 with a similar design (KM 23.2) succeeding it 1841-43. Like all predecimal Ecuadorean gold coins, it is rare.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 27.07 g, 0.875 fine gold, .761 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: Fr-3; KM 23.1.
- [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.
- 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, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
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