Mexico 1828-Ga FS 2 reales

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Stack's Bowers 2019 Collector's Choice sale, lot 72548
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This specimen was lot 72548 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $228. The catalog description[1] noted, "MEXICO. 2 Reales, 1828/7-Ga FS. Guadalajara Mint. PCGS VF-25 Gold Shield. A nice wholesome and evenly worn example of this VERY SCARCE date displaying lovely rich mottled grey patina. A neat piece for the specialist of early republican minors." Shown is an 1828/7-GaFS two reales, one of a type struck at the Guadalajara mint 1825-62. Assayer FS is recorded this mint for the years 1821 and 1825-35. Other mints include Guanajuato, Mexico City, Alamos, Hermosillo, Zacatecas, Culiacan, Chihuahua, Durango, Potosi, Estado de Mexico, Real de Catorce and Guadalupe y Calvo. Only Oaxaca did not strike this type. This type, legal tender in the pre Civil War United States for a quarter, is common except in uncirculated. This is a scarce date of a less common mint.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 6.76 g, 0.903 fine silver, .196 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM 374.6.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Dunigan, Mike, and J. B. Parker, Resplandores: Cap and Ray 8 Reales of The Republic of Mexico, 1823-1897, Beverly Hills, CA: Superior Stamp & Coin, 1997.
  • 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]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2019 Collector's Choice Sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.

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