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| − | ''Specification:'' 13.54 grams, .917 fine gold, .399 troy oz AGW. This specimen: 13.54 grams, 30.30 mm diameter. | + | ''Specification:'' 13.54 grams, 0.917 fine gold, .399 troy oz AGW. This specimen: 13.54 grams, 30.30 mm diameter. |
''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-12593]], KM 141, Fr-30. | ''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-12593]], KM 141, Fr-30. | ||
Revision as of 12:26, 17 August 2023
This specimen was lot 3148 in the Eliasberg sale, where it sold for $52,900. The catalog description[1] noted, "1765 MF 4 escudos. Mexico City mint. AU-55 (NGC). Types as above. Lustrous medium gold with rich orange highlights. A simply exceptional specimen of this rare type. Choice eye appeal, somewhat soft at base of shield and showing a minor abrasion in that area, some trivial hairlines. Gerber lacked this type on a 4 escudos, while Norweb owned a single 1764-dated piece that was not as nice as this one. A key type in an advanced collection of 4 escudos, a well-provenanced example that may be among the best available to collectors. John H. Clapp Collection; Clapp estate to Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., 1942."
This very rare type was struck 1762-71 and is the second of three busts of Charles III.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 13.54 grams, 0.917 fine gold, .399 troy oz AGW. This specimen: 13.54 grams, 30.30 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Cayón-12593, KM 141, Fr-30.
- 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.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Kraljevich, John, John Pack, Elizabeth O. Piper and Frank Van Valen, The Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., Collection of World Gold Coins and Medals, Wolfboro, NH: American Numismatic Rarities, 2005.
- 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.
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