Peru 1759-L JM 4 escudos

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from Sedwick Auction 37, lot 1214
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This specimen was lot 1214 in Sedwick Auction 37 (Winter Park, FL, May 2025), where it sold for $4,350. The catalog description[1] noted, "PERU, Lima, gold bust 4 escudos, Ferdinand VI, 1759 JM, second bust, NGC AU details / removed from jewelry, finest and only example in NGC census, ex-Almenara. Sharply detailed and highly lustrous but with cleaned and lightly marked surfaces, rare type missing in both Eliasberg and Caballero. Pedigreed to the Almenara Collection." This type was struck in Lima, Peru, 1754 and 1757-59. Gold coins from Lima are much scarcer than issues from the Colombian mints. Assayer JM is recorded for 1751-72.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 13.54 g, 0.917 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Cayón-10834, Cal-699; Fr-21; KM-58.

Source:

  • Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, 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 Felipe VI, 1474 a 2020, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2019.
  • 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.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia, Cori Sedwick Downing, Connor Falk and Sarah Sproles, Treasure Auction 37, World, U.S Coins and Paper Money, featuring the Almenara Collection of Colonial Peruvian Gold Coins, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2025.

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