Spain 1652-Seg BR/I 8 escudos
This specimen was lot 186 in Áureo y Calicó sale 347 (Barcelona, March 2020), where it sold for €36,800 (about US$48,565 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"1652/1. Felipe IV. Segovia. BR/I. 8 escudos. Algunos excesos de oro y mínima grieta del cuño. Muy bella. Precioso color. Rarísima. Sólo hemos tenido este ejemplar. EBC-. (kingdom of Spain, Philip IV, eight escudos of 1652, Segovia mint. Some excess metal and an edge crack. Very handsome, beautiful color, extremely rare, the only example known to us. About extremely fine.)"
This type was struck at Segovia 1627, 1632-33, 1636-39, 1651-52. All dates are rare. This date is known only with the repunched assayer's initials BR/I. The gold coinage from the other mints were cobs.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 27.07 grams, 0.917 fine gold, this specimen 25,63 g.
Catalog reference: KM 95, AC. 1944, Cal.Onza 54 (same dies), Cayón-6814.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
- Calicó, Xavier, Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
- 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]Sisó, Teresa, Eduard Domingo and Lluís Lalana, Subasta Publica 347: Seleccion de 500 Monedas, Medallas y Billetes, Barcelona: Áureo y Calicó, 2020.
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