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Revision as of 10:26, 31 October 2024
This specimen was lot 64 in Sedwick Auction 36 (Winter Park, FL, November 2024), where it sold for $. The catalog description[1] noted, "COLOMBIA, Bogotá, gold cob 2 escudos, 1707 no assayer (Arce). AU+ with bold full cross-and-tressure (well centered) showing all four dimple-rings but just the bottom tips of the date, nearly full shield with lions sitting on their rumps (a style that began the year before), sediment in crevices." This type was struck 1694-1713 for Charles II and into the reign of Philip V. The posthumous dates lack a mintmark or assayers' initials.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.77 g, 0.917 fine gold, this specimen 6.68 grams.
Catalog reference: Cayón-limonite; Restrepo-M66.40; S-B24; KM-14.2; Cal-unl (Type 242 under Ph. V); Fr-4a.
- 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.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Menzel, Sewall, Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins, New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
- Restrepo, Jorge Emilio, Monedas de Colombia, 1619-2006, Medellin, Colombia, Impresiones Rojo: 2006.
- [1]Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia, Cori Sedwick Downing, Connor Falk and Sarah Sproles, Treasure Auction 36, World, U.S Coins and Paper Money, featuring the Luis R. Ponte collection, the Jorge Becerra Collection and the John M. O'Brien collection, Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2024.
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