Mexico 1727-Mo D 8 reales - Revision history

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[[Image:Mexico Sed27-478.jpg|800px|thumb|Sedwick Treasure auction 27, lot 478]]

This specimen was lot 478 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 27 (Winter Park, FL, May 2020), where it sold for $17,850. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Mexico City, [[Mexico]], cob 8 reales Royal (galano), 1727D, very rare, NGC VF details / plugged. Typically full and beautiful details on a broad, round flan with just a couple tiny edge-splits, lovely toning, virtually undetectable plugged hole near edge, die-match with Lazaro #83, possibly re-worked from earlier dies as the final digit of the date has raised metal around it. Interestingly, the assayer-mark D on this coin has been proven to stand for the monastery of the Holy Desert of Mount Carmel (Santo Desierto del Monte Carmelo), which had inherited ownership of the office of assayer upon the death of assayer Geronimo Becerra in 1677, according to research by Jorge Proctor. The actual working assayer responsible for this 1727 coin was Jose de Rivas Angulo, who later used assayer-mark R for coins made in 1729-30. Also of interest is the fact that this coin falls at the end of the period of Mexican coinage investigated by the crown upon reports of debasement and substandard weights, which eventually led to the 1728 decree to change the design to "pillar dollar" coinage, for which the first model was completed in 1729 and the first coins were made in 1732. Although Royals like this coin were the exception, it is easy to see how the very crude Mexican cob issues of the 1720s were suspicious. NGC #5711821-004." The silver cobs were debased from .931 fine to .917 fine in 1729. They are not rare but very scarce with legible dates.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 27.07 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 26.62 grams.

''Catalog reference:'' S-M23a; KM-R47; Cal-1380, [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-9303]].

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Michael, Thomas, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
* Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, ''Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, vol. 1,'' 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.
* Menzel, Sewall, ''Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins,'' New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia and Cori Sedwick Downing, ''Treasure Auction 27'', Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2020.

''Link to:''
* [[Mexico 1723-Mo J 8 reales|1723 8 reales]]
* [[Mexico 1727-Mo D 2 reales|1727 2 reales]]
* [[Mexico 1728-Mo D 8 reales|1728 8 reales]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1727]]
* return to [[Mexican hammered and cob coinage, 1536-1734]]

[[Category:Selections from Sedwick sale 27]][[Category: Silver pesos of Mexico]][[Category:Cob coinage of Latin America and Spain]]

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 ''Link to:''
 * [[Mexico 1725-Mo D 8 reales KM-49|1725 "royal" 8 reales, Luis I]]
 * [[Mexico 1727-Mo D 1/2 real|1727 "royal" ½ real]]
 * [[Mexico 1727-Mo D 2 reales|1727 2 reales]]

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 [[Image:Mexico Sed27-478.jpg|800px|thumb|Sedwick Treasure auction 27, lot 478]]
-This specimen was lot 478 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 27 (Winter Park, FL, May 2020), where it sold for $17,850. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Mexico City, [[Mexico]], cob 8 reales Royal (galano), 1727D, very rare, NGC VF details / plugged. Typically full and beautiful details on a broad, round flan with just a couple tiny edge-splits, lovely toning, virtually undetectable plugged hole near edge, die-match with Lazaro #83, possibly re-worked from earlier dies as the final digit of the date has raised metal around it. Interestingly, the assayer-mark D on this coin has been proven to stand for the monastery of the Holy Desert of Mount Carmel (Santo Desierto del Monte Carmelo), which had inherited ownership of the office of assayer upon the death of assayer Geronimo Becerra in 1677, according to research by Jorge Proctor. The actual working assayer responsible for this 1727 coin was Jose de Rivas Angulo, who later used assayer-mark R for coins made in 1729-30. Also of interest is the fact that this coin falls at the end of the period of Mexican coinage investigated by the crown upon reports of debasement and substandard weights, which eventually led to the 1728 decree to change the design to 'pillar dollar' coinage, for which the first model was completed in 1729 and the first coins were made in 1732. Although Royals like this coin were the exception, it is easy to see how the very crude Mexican cob issues of the 1720s were suspicious. NGC #5711821-004." The silver cobs were debased from .931 fine to 0.917 fine in 1729. They are not rare but very scarce with legible dates.
+This specimen was lot 478 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 27 (Winter Park, FL, May 2020), where it sold for $17,850. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Mexico City, [[Mexico]], cob 8 reales Royal (galano), 1727D, very rare, NGC VF details / plugged. Typically full and beautiful details on a broad, round flan with just a couple tiny edge-splits, lovely toning, virtually undetectable plugged hole near edge, die-match with Lazaro #83, possibly re-worked from earlier dies as the final digit of the date has raised metal around it. Interestingly, the assayer-mark D on this coin has been proven to stand for the monastery of the Holy Desert of Mount Carmel (Santo Desierto del Monte Carmelo), which had inherited ownership of the office of assayer upon the death of assayer Geronimo Becerra in 1677, according to research by Jorge Proctor. The actual working assayer responsible for this 1727 coin was Jose de Rivas Angulo, who later used assayer-mark R for coins made in 1729-30. Also of interest is the fact that this coin falls at the end of the period of Mexican coinage investigated by the crown upon reports of debasement and substandard weights, which eventually led to the 1728 decree to change the design to 'pillar dollar' coinage, for which the first model was completed in 1729 and the first coins were made in 1732. Although Royals like this coin were the exception, it is easy to see how the very crude Mexican cob issues of the 1720s were suspicious. NGC #5711821-004." The silver cobs were debased from 0.931 fine to 0.917 fine in 1729. They are not rare but very scarce with legible dates.
 ''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

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 [[Image:Mexico Sed27-478.jpg|800px|thumb|Sedwick Treasure auction 27, lot 478]]
-This specimen was lot 478 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 27 (Winter Park, FL, May 2020), where it sold for $17,850. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Mexico City, [[Mexico]], cob 8 reales Royal (galano), 1727D, very rare, NGC VF details / plugged. Typically full and beautiful details on a broad, round flan with just a couple tiny edge-splits, lovely toning, virtually undetectable plugged hole near edge, die-match with Lazaro #83, possibly re-worked from earlier dies as the final digit of the date has raised metal around it. Interestingly, the assayer-mark D on this coin has been proven to stand for the monastery of the Holy Desert of Mount Carmel (Santo Desierto del Monte Carmelo), which had inherited ownership of the office of assayer upon the death of assayer Geronimo Becerra in 1677, according to research by Jorge Proctor. The actual working assayer responsible for this 1727 coin was Jose de Rivas Angulo, who later used assayer-mark R for coins made in 1729-30. Also of interest is the fact that this coin falls at the end of the period of Mexican coinage investigated by the crown upon reports of debasement and substandard weights, which eventually led to the 1728 decree to change the design to 'pillar dollar' coinage, for which the first model was completed in 1729 and the first coins were made in 1732. Although Royals like this coin were the exception, it is easy to see how the very crude Mexican cob issues of the 1720s were suspicious. NGC #5711821-004." The silver cobs were debased from .931 fine to .917 fine in 1729. They are not rare but very scarce with legible dates.
+This specimen was lot 478 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 27 (Winter Park, FL, May 2020), where it sold for $17,850. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Mexico City, [[Mexico]], cob 8 reales Royal (galano), 1727D, very rare, NGC VF details / plugged. Typically full and beautiful details on a broad, round flan with just a couple tiny edge-splits, lovely toning, virtually undetectable plugged hole near edge, die-match with Lazaro #83, possibly re-worked from earlier dies as the final digit of the date has raised metal around it. Interestingly, the assayer-mark D on this coin has been proven to stand for the monastery of the Holy Desert of Mount Carmel (Santo Desierto del Monte Carmelo), which had inherited ownership of the office of assayer upon the death of assayer Geronimo Becerra in 1677, according to research by Jorge Proctor. The actual working assayer responsible for this 1727 coin was Jose de Rivas Angulo, who later used assayer-mark R for coins made in 1729-30. Also of interest is the fact that this coin falls at the end of the period of Mexican coinage investigated by the crown upon reports of debasement and substandard weights, which eventually led to the 1728 decree to change the design to 'pillar dollar' coinage, for which the first model was completed in 1729 and the first coins were made in 1732. Although Royals like this coin were the exception, it is easy to see how the very crude Mexican cob issues of the 1720s were suspicious. NGC #5711821-004." The silver cobs were debased from .931 fine to 0.917 fine in 1729. They are not rare but very scarce with legible dates.
 ''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

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 * Michael, Thomas, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
 * Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, ''Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, vol. 1,'' 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.
+* 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.
 * Menzel, Sewall, ''Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins,'' New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
 * <sup>[1]</sup>Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia and Cori Sedwick Downing, ''Treasure Auction 27'', Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2020.