Portugal 1948 2-1/2 escudos
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The first specimen was lot 43298 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $100. The catalog description[1] noted, "PORTUGAL. 2-1/2 Escudos, 1948. Lisbon Mint. PCGS MS-66." This type was struck 1932-33, 1937, 1940-48 and 1951. The handsome caravel design was also used on five and ten escudos coins. When the issue of 2½ escudos resumed in 1963, it was a copper-nickel coin.
Recorded mintage: 1,814,000, a better date.
Specification: 3.5 g, 0.650 fine silver, .146 troy oz ASW, 20.4 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-580; Gomes-30.11.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Reis, Lina, Anuário de Numismática, Moedas e notas 2010, 31ª ediçao, Lisbon: Publinummis, Lda, 2009.
- 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, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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