Spain 1730-S S 4 reales

Stack's Bowers September 2024 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75525

This specimen was lot 75525 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $576. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SPAIN. 4 Reales, 1730. Seville Mint. Philip V. PCGS Genuine--Holed, VF Details. 13.32 g. The RARE one-year type without mint or denomination shown. Struck slightly off-center and with a hole at the bottom, but exhibiting decent, gray-toned surfaces throughout. From the Richard Margolis Collection." This rare type was struck at Seville without assayer 1730 only. Similar two and eight reales exist.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 13.54 g, 0.917 fine silver.

Catalog reference: Cayón-9047, KM-351; Cal-1226.

Source:

• 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.
• Krause, Chester L., and Colin R. Bruce II, Standard Catalog of World Coins: Spain, Portugal and the New World, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

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