Mexico 1618-Mo D 2 reales

Sedwick Treasure auction 27, lot 489

This specimen was lot 489 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 27 (Winter Park, FL, May 2020), where it sold for $654.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Mexico City, Mexico, cob 2 reales, 1618/17/09D/F, unique. Very bold full final two digits of date with very clear double overdate (first we have seen or heard of), also full oMD with clear D/F, good full shield and cross but peripheries flat, Fine with encrustation in crevices." This specimen is a silver cob two reales struck at Mexico City 1607-20. Specimens with clear dates are unusual. In 1728, cobs were debased from .931 to 0.917 fine silver.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 6.77 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 6.59 grams.

Catalog reference: S-M18; KM-32.2 for type; Cal-unlisted, Cayón-unlisted.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• 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.
• ^[1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia and Cori Sedwick Downing, Treasure Auction 27, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2020.

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