Watch List notes:

Cuba (struck at the Gorham mint), "souvenir" peso, 1898, rare key date, NGC AU details / rim filing, cleaned, ex-EMO Collection (stated on label). KM-A8. Only 1000 pieces minted by the Gorham Manufacturing Company. This second year of mintage was proposed just three weeks after the explosion and sinking of the USS Maine in the Havana harbor. According to Emilio Ortiz in Money of the Caribbean, on March 9, 1898, Gorham agreed "to make one thousand Cuban Coins in about four days from the receipt of the order." Fully detailed despite noted marks, untoned silver color, a rare key date for early Cuban coinage. Pedigreed to the EMO Numismatic Cabinet. NGC #2781109-001.
(800 - 1200 USD)