Chile 1852 5 pesos

Stack's Bowers 2022 ANA sale, lot 34380

This specimen was lot 34380 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $1,560. The catalog description^[1] noted, "CHILE. 5 Pesos, 1852-So. Santiago Mint. NGC MS-61. The middle date in a brief three-year series, this exceptional Mint State survivor yields a dazzling array of lustrous brilliance and elegant surface quality that is RARELY encountered for the type. The finer by far of just two seen at NGC for the entire three-year run. Ex: Jose Barros Collection." The SCWC prices this coin at bullion for the three known dates, 1851-53, but this type seldom turns up. The later KM 130 appears much more frequently.

Recorded mintage: 20,000.

Specification: 7.63 g, .900 fine gold, .220 troy oz AGW, 22.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Fr-46; KM-122.

Source:

• 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.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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