Spain 1885-MS M 25 pesetas (85)
This specimen was lot 764 in Áureo y Calicó sale 345 (Barcelona, March 2020), where it sold for €1,850 (about US$2,442 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"1885*1885. Alfonso XII. MSM. 25 pesetas. Mínimos golpecitos. Bella. Brillo original. Ex Áureo & Calicó 31/01/2013, nº 3540. Ex Colección Manuela Etcheverría. Muy rara. EBC. (kingdom of Spain, Alfonso XII, 1875-89, 25 pesetas of 1885. Minor nicks, handsome, mint luster, very rare, extremely fine.)"
This type, struck 1881-85, is common enough to sell as a bullion coin but the 1885 is a rather scarce date. After 1889, Spain struck twenty pesetas on the same module as French twenty francs d'or.
Recorded mintage: 502,613.
Specification: 8.064 g, 0.900 fine gold, .233 troy oz AGW, this specimen 8,01 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-344, KM 687, Cayón-17539, Cal-20.
- 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 Felipe VI, 1474 a 2020, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2019.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ‘’Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed.’’, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Sisó, Teresa, Eduard Domingo and Lluís Lalana, Subasta Publica 345: Colección Manuela Etcheverría, Barcelona: Áureo y Calicó, 2020.
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