Portugal (1472-81)-L chinfrao

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Stack's Bowers February 2023 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74439
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This specimen was lot 74439 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2023), where it sold for $240. The catalog description[1] noted, "PORTUGAL. Chinfrao, ND (1438-81)-L. Lisbon Mint. Alfonso V. PCGS AU-50. Exhibiting a great deal of originality and elegant charcoal toning, this piece stands as a charming example of the type. The reverse is particularly well-centered and retains some lovely underlying luster in the fields." Altho this chinfrão is not dated, we know it was struck after 1472, the date it was authorized. Alfonso died in 1481, aged 49 years.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 1.05-1.43 g, 0.917 fine silver, 19-20 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Gomes-23.03.

Source:

  • Alberto Gomes and Francisco Antonio Magro, Moedas Portuguesas e do Território Que Hoje é Portugal: Catálogo das Moedas Cunhadas para o Continentes e Ilhas Adjacentes, para os Territórios do Ultramar e Grão-Mestres Portugueses da Ordem de Malta, 6ª Edição, Lisbon: Associação Numismática de Portugal, 2013.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the David Sterling Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

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