Guatemala 1787-NG M real
This specimen was lot 1905 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $357. The catalog description[1] noted, "GUATEMALA: Carlos III, 1759-1788, AR real, 1787-NG, assayer M (broken M), two-year type, well struck, Choice VF, ex Ponterio and Associates November 2004 Auction, Lot 1757." Shown is a 1787 one real from the new Guatemala mint, from a type struck 1786-87. In 1776, an earthquake demolished Antigua Guatemala (including the mint) and a new city was built some miles away. To mark the move, the mintmark was changed to "NG" ("Nueva Guatemala", still the capital of Guatemala) on all issues of 1777 and after. Harris[2] notes that Guatemala is the second rarest mint (after Bogotá) for portrait one reales of Charles III; he counted over three times as many Mexico City one reales of the same type.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 3.38 g, .896 fine silver, .097 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: KM-33.2a, Cayón-11425.
- [2]Harris, Robert P., Pillars & Portraits, San José, CA: Bonanza Press, 1968.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- 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.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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