Watch List notes:

Mexico City, Mexico, 8 escudos, 1822JM, Iturbide, normal legend variety, encapsulated NGC MS 62. KM-313.2. Nice luster and choice strike except for parts of rims, minor marks only, tied with four others for second finest in NGC census, rare and popular single-year type (with emperor's name spelled properly) and in fact the only gold denomination struck that year, important as the first post-colonial gold coinage struck in Mexico, particularly rare in this lofty grade. NGC #3735676-005.
($20000-30000)