Peru 1719-L M 8 escudos
This specimen was lot 66 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 35 (Winter Park, FL, May 2024), where it sold for $15,600. The catalog description[1] noted, "PERU, Lima, gold cob 8 escudos, 1719/8 M, rare, NGC AU 58. Well centered on a smallish flan with bold full cross-lions-castles and pillars-and-waves, the latter with arrangement of dots only seen on clean-date 1718s so far (but not the previous lot), even yellow color all over and no doubling." Gold coins from colonial Peru are much scarcer than those from Colombian mints. This type is recorded for 1710-47 with assayer M operating 1710-27. Cobs were struck at Lima until 1752, twenty years after Mexico City had switched to milled coinage.
Recorded mintage: 60,234.
Specification: 27.07 g, 0.917 fine gold, this specimen 26.84 grams.
Catalog reference: Cayón-9966; S-L28; KM-38.2; Cal-2129; 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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