Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2018 NYINC Auction 11-13 Jan 2018
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COLOMBIA. 1877 20 Pesos. Bogotá mint. Restrepo M336.13. MS-62 (PCGS).
One of the great rarities in this series, missing from the Norweb and Sedwick collections, as well as the May 1990 Sotheby's Geneva sale. The Eliasberg Collection included a specimen graded AU-53 (NGC), but this appears to be the finest example ever offered, if not the finest extant. Unbroken cartwheel luster over choice light yellow gold surfaces give this piece the look of a much higher grade. Some trivial granularity is noted on the cheek, but the surfaces are fresh and free of significant marks. A fitting end to this remarkable run of Bogotá 20 Pesos, the last issue in the series and its most notable rarity.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
One of the great rarities in this series, missing from the Norweb and Sedwick collections, as well as the May 1990 Sotheby's Geneva sale. The Eliasberg Collection included a specimen graded AU-53 (NGC), but this appears to be the finest example ever offered, if not the finest extant. Unbroken cartwheel luster over choice light yellow gold surfaces give this piece the look of a much higher grade. Some trivial granularity is noted on the cheek, but the surfaces are fresh and free of significant marks. A fitting end to this remarkable run of Bogotá 20 Pesos, the last issue in the series and its most notable rarity.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
From Louis Collins / Heritage, December 1987.
Estimate: $4000.00- $6000.00