Mexico 1611-Mo F real
This specimen was lot 521 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 28 (Winter Park, FL, November 2020), where it sold for $6,600. The catalog description[1] noted, "Mexico City, Mexico, cob 1 real Royal (galano), 1611/10/09F/A, unique, ex-Rudman. As mentioned for the previous Royal lots in this auction, Mexican Royals are generally perfectly struck in medallic alignment on broad flans, and the present coin is an even more extreme example, as the flan is stretched so thin (beyond the outer borders on both sides) as to have cracked from the top to about halfway into the center, while still retaining full details and remaining stable, despite the additional stress of a plugged hole outside the right arm of the cross (no doubt located there because of the crack). Otherwise it is a beautiful coin, with lovely toning setting off the XF details, with very bold 1/0 overdate for the final digit and with (faint) 1/0 for the penultimate digit as well, in addition to the faint over-assayer F/A, unlisted in references and the only specimen known to us (unless the clean-date 1611F found in Calico refers to this coin), also extremely rare as a type (Philip III) and one of very few Mexican 1R Royals in existence at all. Pedigreed to the Isaac Rudman numismatic cabinet." The SCWC notes the regular cobs for 1607-13.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.38 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 2.87 grams.
Catalog reference: S-M17; KM-R27.2 (unlisted date); Cal-unl (cf 480), Cayón-4515.
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- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
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- [1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia and Cori Sedwick Downing, Treasure Auction 28, featuring the Dr. Peter Jones and John O'Brien collections, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2020.
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