Mexico 1820-Mo JJ 4 reales

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Stack's Bowers November 2022 Collectors Choice sale, lot 71731
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This specimen was lot 71731 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2022), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "MEXICO. 4 Reales, 1820-Mo JJ. Mexico City Mint. Ferdinand VII. PCGS Genuine--Tooled, Fine Details. This 4 Reales piece exhibits tooling and numerous contact marks on its well-circulated surfaces. Although the portrait has degraded into a silhouette, the coin retains nicely legible legends and a rather nicely struck reverse shield and pillars. From the Pat Johnson Collection." This specimen displays the standard bust of Ferdinand VII used in Mexico 1816-21. The four reales is the scarcest of the silver denominations and the "standard bust" of Ferdinand VII is a scarce type for the denomination, even in low grade. By 1820, the rebels had been almost completely crushed by the royalists but in 1821, alarmed by liberal tendencies in Spain, the royalist leaders switched sides and allied with the rebels to declare independence.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 13.54 g, 0.896 fine silver.

Catalog reference: Cayón-15748, KM-102; Cal-1097; Yonaka-M4-120.

Source:

  • Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, vol. 1, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
  • Calicó, Xavier, Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Felipe VI, 1474 a 2020, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2019.
  • Harris, Robert P., Pillars & Portraits, San José, CA: Bonanza Press, 1968.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The November 2022 Collectors Choice Ancient & World Coins Auction, Featuring the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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