Mexico 1742/32-Mo MF 4 escudos
This specimen was lot 31053 in Heritage sale 3041 (Chicago, August 2015), where it sold for $9,987.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "Philip V gold 4 Escudos 1742/32 Mo-MF AU55 NGC, Mexico City mint. A flashy and most attractive coin for the designation, with gorgeous orange color, considerably lustrous surfaces and only limited friction evidence on the higher points defining the grade. A clear and extremely rare overdate, with only two other examples noted by the cataloguer and missing from all major collections examined. Curiously, no evidence of a another digit appears underneath the final '2', possibly the consequence of an amended and previously unused die with the unfinished '173x' date to strike the present example (the use of a die dated 1732 seems unlikely since all examined examples of the - very rare - 1732 date were struck from a different die). In addition to the noted very rare overdate, the present coin is also a superior representative of the type, with less than 10 examples of any date certified higher by NGC. Thusly, a coin that should appeal to a wide audience of collectors. From The Rudman Collection of Mexican Coins." This rare type is listed for 1732-47. No regular date is recorded for 1742.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 13.53 g, 0.917 fine gold, .399 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: Cayón-9859, KM 135, cf. Cal-248 (unlisted as an overdate), Fr-9.
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- 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, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World & Ancient Coins Auction 3041, featuring the Eric Beckman Collection of Canadian Coins, the Kaiser Collection of German Gold Coins and the Rudman Collection of Mexican Coins, Part I, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2015.
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