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Long Beach Signature Sale 3057 7-8 Sep 2017
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Charles IV gold 8 Escudos 1791 PTS-PR AU55 NGC, Potosi mint, KM77, Onza-1084, AU53 NGC. Lightly toned with strong luster, attractive surface quality and only slight high-point wear defining the grade. Certainly among the finer extant of this rare one-year type featuring the laureate proper bust of Charles IV. A charming coin with a stupendous pedigree and very desirable as such. The plate coin in Wayte Raymond's 1936 pioneering work The Gold Coins of South America.
Ex. Eliasberg Collection (ANR 4/2005 - lot 1029)
HID02901242017
Estimate: 5000-8000 USD
Charles IV gold 8 Escudos 1791 PTS-PR AU55 NGC, Potosi mint, KM77, Onza-1084, AU53 NGC. Lightly toned with strong luster, attractive surface quality and only slight high-point wear defining the grade. Certainly among the finer extant of this rare one-year type featuring the laureate proper bust of Charles IV. A charming coin with a stupendous pedigree and very desirable as such. The plate coin in Wayte Raymond's 1936 pioneering work The Gold Coins of South America.
Ex. Eliasberg Collection (ANR 4/2005 - lot 1029)
HID02901242017
Estimate: 5000-8000 USD