Venezuela 1900 2 bolivares
The first specimen was lot 72495 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $1,020. The catalog description[1] noted, "VENEZUELA. 2 Bolivares, 1900. Paris Mint. PCGS AU-58. A wonderful example that is SCARCE in such a high grade. Beautifully toned a base gray with cobalt and orange hues. This near Mint State example would be a welcome addition to any Venezuela collection." The second specimen was lot 2407 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it did not sell. The catalog description[2] noted, "VENEZUELA. 2 Bolivares, 1900. Paris Mint. NGC AU-55. Showcasing unusual originality, this impressive, delicately circulated 2 Bolivares retains captivating reflectivity in the fields with a sheath of olive-brown tone over both sides that contains integrated multicolored iridescence hues. Even when encountered in finer certified grades (which occurs very infrequently) seldom do examples of this date rival this coin in terms of appearance. From the Centuria Collection." This type was struck at various mints (a Paris product is shown here) 1879, 1886-89, 1894, 1900-05, 1911-13, 1919, 1922-30, 1935-36. While this is the most available date of the nineteenth century, only the 1935-36 issues are truly common.
Recorded mintage: 350,000.
Specification: 10 g, 0.835 fine silver, 27 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-Y23; Stohr-63.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Stohr, Tomas, El Circulante en la Capitania General de Venezuela, Caracas, Banco Central de Venezuela, 1998.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
- [2]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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