Peru 1952 20 soles

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale, lot 24631

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 24631 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $660. The catalog description^[1] noted, "PERU. 20 Soles, 1952. NGC MS-63. From a mintage of only 424 pieces. Sharply struck, brilliant and quite attractive." This denomination, struck 1950-69, was theoretically a circulating coin but actually was a bullion piece like her sisters, the gold five, ten, fifty and hundred soles.

Recorded mintage: 424, a better date.

Specification: 9.36 g, 0.900 fine gold, 0.269 troy oz AGW, 22 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Fr-80; KM-229.

Source:

• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
• 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, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

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