Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2018 NYINC Auction 11-13 Jan 2018
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COLOMBIA. 1762-JV 8 Escudos. Santa Fe de Nuevo Reino (Bogotá) mint. Carlos III (1759-1788). Restrepo M69.6. AU-53 (PCGS).
Lustrous light yellow gold with deeper orange toning among the peripheral legends. Fairly well centered, denticles just a bit longer at the lower right obverse than the upper left, good strike on both sides. No major marks are seen. This final use of the Ferdinand VI bust on a Santa Fe 8 Escudos is very rare, listed as "only a few examples known" in the Calicó Onza book and missing from most major collections.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
Lustrous light yellow gold with deeper orange toning among the peripheral legends. Fairly well centered, denticles just a bit longer at the lower right obverse than the upper left, good strike on both sides. No major marks are seen. This final use of the Ferdinand VI bust on a Santa Fe 8 Escudos is very rare, listed as "only a few examples known" in the Calicó Onza book and missing from most major collections.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
From Don Canaparo, June 1981.
Estimate: $2500.00- $5000.00