Ecuador 1888-So sucre
The first specimen was lot 1749 in Stephen Album sale 27 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2017), where it sold for $176.25. The catalog description[1] noted, "ECUADOR: AR sucre, Santiago, 1888. Assayer DT, a few small scratches at center reverse, two-year type, light tone, Choice EF." The second specimen was lot 1590 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it did not sell. The catalog description[2] noted, "ECUADOR: AR sucre, Santiago (Chile), 1888, assayer DT, two-year type struck in Chile, light traces of surface hornsilver, About Unc." After a period of striking reales, pesos and escudos which must be regarded as a failure, Ecuador ceased minting coins in 1862. In 1884, the government tried again, this time with coinage produced on contract by the Heaton mint in Birmingham, England. A new currency conforming to the Latin Monetary Union was introduced, the sucre, with its division the centavo. Silver sucres were produced at Heaton 1884-95, at Santiago, Chile, 1888-89, and at Lima, Peru, 1890-97. The specimen shown is from Santiago. The type is not common but reasonably available in circulated condition.
Recorded mintage: 373,000 plus 100,000 from Heaton.
Specification: 25 g, 0.900 fine silver, .723 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: KM-53.2.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Elizondo, Carlos A., Eight Reales and Pesos of the New World, San Antonio, TX: 1968.
- Raymond, Wayte, The Silver Dollars of North and South America, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1964.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 27, featuring the Dr. Paul Stevens Collection of Indian Coins, Part VI, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2016.
- [2]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
Link to:
- 1884-H sucre
- 1886-H centavo
- 1888-H sucre
- 1889-So sucre
- Coins and currency dated 1888
- return to coins of Ecuador