Peru 1969 20 soles

from Steve Album sale 27, lot 1856

This specimen was lot 1856 in Stephen Album sale 27 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2017), where it sold for $940. The catalog description^[1] noted, "PERU: AV 20 soles, 1969. Mintage of only 640 pieces! only one piece graded higher by NGC, NGC graded MS65 PL, R." 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: 640.

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

Catalog reference: KM-229.

Source:

• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 27, featuring the Dr. Paul Stevens Collection of Indian Coins, Part VI, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2016.
• 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.

Links to:

• 1967 20 soles
• 1969 5 centavos
• 1969 25 centavos
• 1969 ½ sol
• 1969 sol
• 1969 gold 5 soles
• 1969 copper-nickel 10 soles
• 1969 50 soles, seated liberty
• 1969 50 soles Inca
• 1969 100 soles
• Coins and currency dated 1969
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