San Marino 1982-R scudo

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from the Stack's Bowers 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 73472
photo courtesy Stacks Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 73472 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "SAN MARINO. Scudo, 1982-R. Rome Mint. NGC MS-69. A lustrous and brilliant example, with seemingly flawless fields and tremendous cartwheel radiance." San Marino is in the Italian Apennines and is a protectorate of Italy but remains independent. This type was struck in Rome altho the theme is vague. San Marinan circulating coinage was based on the lira but gold commemoratives were usually one, two or five scudi. San Marino now uses the euro.

Recorded mintage: 17,000, of which 1,192 were melted.

Specification: 3 g, 0.917 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Fr-27; KM 142.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Gigante, Fabio, Gigante 2016: Catalogo Nazionale delle Monete Italiano Dal '700 All'Euro, 24a ed. Varese, Italy, 2015.
  • Montenegro, Eupremio, Montenegro 2015: Manuale del Collezionista di Monete Italiane, 30 ed., Torino, Italy: Montenegro s.a.s., 2014.
  • 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.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The June 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

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