Peru 1707-L H 8 escudos
This specimen was lot 58 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 35 (Winter Park, FL, May 2024), where it sold for $66,000. The catalog description[1] noted, "PERU, Lima, gold cob 8 escudos, 1707 H, legend ISPANIAR, rare, NGC MS 63 (1715 Fleet Shipwreck Label). Very broad flan with 100% full legends including a very prominent PHILIPPVS V due to contrasting deep-red toning, good full pillars-and-waves and cross-lions-castles, currently second finest in NGC census behind a single MS 64. From the 1715 Fleet, with Sedwick photo-certificate." Gold coins from colonial Peru are much scarcer than those from Colombian mints. Assayer H is recorded for 1696-1709. Cobs were struck at Lima until 1752, twenty years after Mexico City had switched to milled coinage.
Recorded mintage: 112,660.
Specification: 27.07 g, 0.917 fine gold, this specimen 26.96 grams.
Catalog reference: Cayón-9906; S-L25a; KM-38.1; Cal-2113; Fr-7.
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- [1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia, Cori Sedwick Downing and Connor Falk, Treasure Auction 35, World, U.S Coins and Paper Money, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2024.
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