Mexico 1867-Go YF 1/2 real

Stack's Bowers 2021 NYINC sale, lot 22058

from the Mountain Groan Collection

The first specimen was lot 22058 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (Newport Beach, CA, January 2021), where it sold for $960. The catalog description^[1] noted, "MEXICO. 1/2 Real, 1867-Go YF. Guanajuato Mint. PCGS MS-66 Gold Shield. Virtually perfect, this stunning minor displays a bold strong and vivid tone that shows significant hues of mauve and orange-gold in the centers with blue, green and violet coloration around the outer edges. Certainly elusive in this technical quality, and notable as the single finest graded of this issue at PCGS, but beyond that, the most enchanting 1/2 Real from this series (from any mint) that this cataloger has ever seen, which absolutely places it in VERY RARE company. From the Matthew Orsini Collection." This Guanajuato issue is common in all grades. It marked a brief (1867-68) resumption of predecimal coinage after the ouster of the Maximilian regime and before the introduction of decimal coinage.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: .69 g, 0.903 fine silver, .049 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM-370.7.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Buttrey, T. V., and Clyde Hubbard, A Guide Book of Mexican Coins, 1822 to date, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1992.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The January 2021 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Oro del Nuevo Mundo and Matt Orsini Collections, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

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