Peru 1754-L JD 8 reales

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from the Acanthite collection
from the Acanthite collection
Aureo sale 232, lot 181

This is an eight reales struck in Peru during the reign of Ferdinand VI (1746-1759). There are a host of varieties for this year reported by Gilboy[1], including and overdate, two styles of the digit 5, and a normal (non-anagram) 'M' in the mintmark. The pictured coin is the normal issue, and is listed by Gilboy[1] as 'uncommon'. It is one of only two years displaying the assayer combination 'JD'.

The second specimen shown was lot 181 in Aureo y Calicó sale 232 (Barcelona, March 2011), where it sold for 1,350 euros (about US$2,227 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[2] noted,

"Fernando VI (1746-1759). 1754. Lima. JD. 8 reales. Columnario. Punto sobre las dos LMA. Bellísima. Brillo original. Preciosa pátina. Muy rara así. S/C-. (Ferdinand VI, 1746-59, eight reales of 1754, Lima mint, pillar type, dot over both mintmarks. Of the highest beauty, original luster, very rare thus, about uncirculated).

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 27.07 g, 0.917 fine silver, 0.798 troy oz ASW, this specimen: 26.92 grams.

Catalog reference: Cayón-10586, KM-55.1, Cal-310.

Sources:

  • Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, vol. 1, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
  • Calicó, Xavier, Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
  • Elizondo, Carlos A., Eight Reales and Pesos of the New World, San Antonio, TX: 1968.
  • [1]Gilboy, Frank F., The Milled Columnarios of Central and South America: Spanish American Pillar Coinage, 1732 to 1772, Regina, Saskatchewan: Prairie Wind Publishing, 1999.
  • Harris, Robert P., Pillars & Portraits, San José, CA: Bonanza Press, 1968.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • Yonaka, Brad, A Variety Guide to the Pillar Coinage of the Guatemala, Bogota, Lima, Potosi, and Santiago Mints, 1752-1771, Long Beach, CA: Agorocu Consulting, 2018.
  • [2]Sisó, Teresa, Eduardo Domingo and Lluís Lalana, Selección de 500 Monedas, Medallas y Billetes, Barcelona: Aureo y Calicó Subastas, 2011.

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