Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2018 NYINC Auction 11-13 Jan 2018
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COLOMBIA. 1841/0-RU/B 16 Pesos. Popayán mint. Restrepo M212.9. VF-30 (PCGS).
An exceptionally rare issue, missing from the Norweb and Frank Sedwick collections. Frank Sedwick's book The Gold Coinage of Gran Colombia called this issue RRRR and left it unpriced. This overdate is unmistakably bold, as is the RU/B overassayer on the reverse. Evenly worn medium yellow gold with contrasting toning around legends and devices. A tiny rim nick is seen under the date. The reverse is cracked from right of 12:00 between OS of PESOS. Very nice for the grade and highly elusive in any state of preservation. This piece and the 1841-RU in this collection came from the same group lot in a well-known 1990 Geneva sale.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
An exceptionally rare issue, missing from the Norweb and Frank Sedwick collections. Frank Sedwick's book The Gold Coinage of Gran Colombia called this issue RRRR and left it unpriced. This overdate is unmistakably bold, as is the RU/B overassayer on the reverse. Evenly worn medium yellow gold with contrasting toning around legends and devices. A tiny rim nick is seen under the date. The reverse is cracked from right of 12:00 between OS of PESOS. Very nice for the grade and highly elusive in any state of preservation. This piece and the 1841-RU in this collection came from the same group lot in a well-known 1990 Geneva sale.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
From Ponterio and Associates, June 1990. Earlier, from Sotheby's (Geneva) sale of Gold Coins of the Hispanic World, May 1990, lot 168.
Estimate: $1500.00- $2500.00