Peru 1967 20 soles

Stack's Bowers October 2020 Collectors Choice sale, lot 72500

This specimen was lot 72500 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2020), where it sold for $630. The catalog description^[1] noted, "PERU. 20 Soles, 1967. Lima Mint. NGC MS-66. A pleasing Gem with mutely reflective fields and dark golden hue." 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: 5,003.

Specification: 9.36 g, 0.900 fine gold, .269 troy oz AGW, 22 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Fr-80; KM-229..

Source:

• 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.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

Links to:

• 1966 silver 20 soles, Battle of May 2
• 1966 gold 20 soles
• 1967 5 centavos
• 1967 10 centavos
• 1967 25 centavos
• 1967 ½ sol
• 1967 sol
• 1967 5 soles
• 1967 10 soles
• 1967 50 soles, seated liberty
• 1967 50 soles, Inca
• 1967 100 soles
• 1969 20 soles
• Coins and currency dated 1967