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January 2018 NYINC Auction 11-13 Jan 2018
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COLOMBIA. 1873 pattern 10 Pesos. Medellín mint. Gold. Restrepo-68. SP-62 (PCGS).
Reeded edge. Medal turn. Portrait signed L.C.W. for Leonard Charles Wyon. A gold strike from the dies that later coined the extremely rare 10 Pesos dated 1886/74. Bright and reflective medium yellow gold with frosted devices and deeper orange toning around peripheries. Somewhat handled, with scattered bagmarks and trivial hairlines on both sides, along with a rim bruise on the reverse above D of DIEZ. An outstanding rarity in the series, one with historic relevance to one of the most famous of all regular issue Colombian gold coins.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
Reeded edge. Medal turn. Portrait signed L.C.W. for Leonard Charles Wyon. A gold strike from the dies that later coined the extremely rare 10 Pesos dated 1886/74. Bright and reflective medium yellow gold with frosted devices and deeper orange toning around peripheries. Somewhat handled, with scattered bagmarks and trivial hairlines on both sides, along with a rim bruise on the reverse above D of DIEZ. An outstanding rarity in the series, one with historic relevance to one of the most famous of all regular issue Colombian gold coins.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
From Sotheby's (London) sale of March 1984, lot 237, via Bill Christensen.
Estimate: $7500.00- $15000.00