Ecuador 1890-H sucre
This specimen was lot 30449 in Heritage sale 3081 (New York, January 2020), where it sold for $5,040. The catalog description[1] noted, "Ecuador: Republic Sucre 1890-BIRMINGHAM MS62 NGC, Heaton (Birmingham) mint. The key date to the series, extremely rare from this mint. Truly Mint State, with copious luster and fully original color." 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, 1889-92, 1895, at Santiago, Chile, 1888-89, and at Lima, Peru, 1890-97. The specimen shown is from Heaton. The type is not common but reasonably available in circulated condition.
Recorded mintage: 12,000.
Specification: 25 g, 0.900 fine silver, .723 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: KM 53.3.
- 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]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and Sam Spiegel, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3081, featuring the Caranett Collection, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2019.
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