Watch List notes:

Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 escudos, (1714)J, "GRAT" variety, encapsulated NGC MS 63, from the 1715 Fleet (stated inside slab). S-M30; KM-57.2; CT-107. 26.92 grams. Choice full shield with telltale errors (fleurs of Burgundy underneath the fesse of Austria on the left inside the shield, denomination VIII over IIIV), full but slightly off-center cross, flat peripheries (which would show GRAT where the date normally is and the date above the cross instead), traces of sediment in crevices. From the 1715 Fleet, with Sedwick photo-certificate, pedigreed to our Auction #14 (lot #5). ($6000-9000)