Portugal (1517-21) 1/2 tostao

Stack's Bowers 2023 NYINC sale, lot 43244

This specimen was lot 43244 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $264. The catalog description^[1] noted, "PORTUGAL. 1/2 Tostao, ND (1517-21). Manuel I. PCGS EF-45."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Gomes-40.05.

Source:

• Alberto Gomes and Francisco Antonio Magro, Moedas Portuguesas e do Território Que Hoje é Portugal: Catálogo das Moedas Cunhadas para o Continentes e Ilhas Adjacentes, para os Territórios do Ultramar e Grão-Mestres Portugueses da Ordem de Malta, 6ª Edição, Lisbon: Associação Numismática de Portugal, 2013.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

Link to:

• (1495-1521)-VL tostão
• (1495-1521)-V tostão
• Portugal (1495-1521) cruzado Fr-21
• Portugal (1498-1502) 10 cruzados Fr-20
• (1521-57)-LR tostão
• (1521-57)-RL tostão
• Coins and currency dated 1517