Peru 1712-L M 8 escudos
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This specimen was lot 21652 in Heritage sale 3010 (Boston, August 2010), where it sold for $9,200. The catalog description[1] noted, "Felipe V gold cob 8 Escudos 1712M, AU55 PCGS, lightly toned with a faint double-strike on the obverse. Rare and highly desirable in this premium quality." Gold coins from colonial Peru are much scarcer than those from Colombian mints. Assayer M is recorded for 1711-27. Cobs were struck at Lima until 1752, twenty years after Mexico City had switched to milled coinage.
Recorded mintage: 51,248.
Specification: 27.07 g, 0.917 fine gold, .798 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: Cayón-9933, KM 38.2.
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- 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.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Menzel, Sewall, Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins, New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
- 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.
- [1]Tucker, Warren, Scott Cordry and John Kraljevich, Heritage Sale 3010: World Coins, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2010.
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