Peru 1710-L H escudo
This specimen was lot 49 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 38 (Winter Park, FL, November 2025), where it sold for $22,800. The catalog description[1] noted, "PERU, Lima, gold cob 1 escudo, 1710 H, NGC MS 63 (1715 Fleet Shipwreck Label), ex-McGregor. Broad flan with choice full castle flanked by •L• and •H•, bold full date below, also full cross but with some peripheral weakness and die-rust, decent luster and rich color, second finest of just three in the NGC census (the others being AU 58 and MS 65). From the 1715 Fleet, with Sedwick photo-certificate, pedigreed to the McGregor Collection (stated on label)." Gold coins from colonial Peru are much scarcer than those from Colombian mints. Assayer Hurtado stamped his coins 1695-1710. Cobs were struck at Lima until 1752, twenty years after Mexico City had switched to milled coinage.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.38 g, 0.917 fine gold, this specimen 3.38 grams.
Catalog reference: S-L25a; Cal-1664; KM-35; Fr-10, Cayón-9515 (assayer M).
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- [1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia, Cori Sedwick Downing, Connor Falk and Sarah Sproles, Auction 38, World, U.S Coins and Paper Money, featuring the Jorge Ugaz Collection of Lima Silver Cob 2 Reales and the Darby Collection of Guatemala Silver Cobs, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2025.
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