Mexico 1749-Mo MF 8 escudos

Ponterio sale 177, lot 12367

photo courtesy Stacks Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 12367 in Ponterio sale 177 (Chicago, August 2013), where it sold for $4,700. The catalog description^[1] noted, "MEXICO. 8 Escudos, 1749-MF. NGC AU-55. Ferdinand VI (1746-60)." All eight escudos of this king are rare and expensive. The reverse motto, "NOMINA MAGNA SEQUOR," is Latin for "I follow a great name [Philip V]."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 27.07 g, 0.917 fine gold, .798 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: Cayón-10855, Fr-17; KM-150.

Sources:

• 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.
• 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.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 177: The August 2013 Chicago ANA Auction, World Coins, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers, LLC, 2013.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.

Link to:

• 1748 8 escudos
• 1749 ½ real
• 1749 1 real
• 1749 2 reales
• 1749 8 reales
• 1749 escudo
• 1749 2 escudos
• 1749 4 escudos
• Peru 1749-L R 8 escudos
• 1750 8 escudos
• Coins and currency dated 1749
• return to Mexican colonial coinage, 1536-1822