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''Specification:'' 6.77 g, .875 fine gold, .190 troy oz AGW, this specimen 6.8 grams.
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''Specification:'' 6.77 g, 0.875 fine gold, .190 troy oz AGW, this specimen 6.8 grams.
  
 
''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-14258]], CT-368; KM-132.  
 
''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-14258]], CT-368; KM-132.  
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* [[Mexico 1802-Mo FT 8 reales|1802 8 reales]]
 
* [[Mexico 1802-Mo FT 8 reales|1802 8 reales]]
 
* [[Mexico 1802-Mo FT escudo|1802 escudo]]
 
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* [[Bolivia 1802-PTS PP 2 escudos]]
 
* [[Chile 1802-So JJ 2 escudos]]
 
* [[Chile 1802-So JJ 2 escudos]]
 
* [[Colombia 1802-NR JJ 2 escudos]]
 
* [[Colombia 1802-NR JJ 2 escudos]]

Latest revision as of 07:32, 5 August 2025

Sedwick sale 11, lot 139

Shown is an 1802MoFT two escudos, one of a type struck 1791-1808. Assayer FT is recorded for the years 1801-03. This coin was legal tender in the United States, where it was known as a pistole, and would have traded for $3.87. The specimen shown was lot 139 in Sedwick sale 11 (Winter Park, FL, April 2011), where it sold for $1,092.50. The catalog description[1] noted,

"Mexico City, Mexico, bust 2 escudos, Charles IV, 1802FT. Highly lustrous Mint State with lightly hairlined obverse fields, impressively flashy."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 6.77 g, 0.875 fine gold, .190 troy oz AGW, this specimen 6.8 grams.

Catalog reference: Cayón-14258, CT-368; KM-132.

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.
  • [1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia and Cori Sedwick Downing, Treasure Auction 11, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2012.
  • Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

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