Peru 1959 50 soles

Heritage sale 3015, lot 25476

photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 25476 in Heritage sale 3015 (Long Beach, September 2011), where it sold for $1,840. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Republic gold 50 Soles 1959, MS65 PCGS, full mint brilliance." This denomination, struck 1950-69, was theoretically a circulating coin but actually was a bullion piece like her sisters, the gold five, ten, twenty and hundred soles.

Recorded mintage: 5,734.

Specification: 23.405 g, 0.900 fine gold, .677 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: KM 230.

Source:

• ^[1]Cristiano Bierrenbach and Warren Tucker, Heritage World Coin Auction 3015, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2011.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

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