Watch List notes:

Lima, Peru, cob 8 escudos, 1724 M, HISPANIAR variety, rare, NGC AU 58, finest known in NGC census, Tauler Plate. S-L28; KM-38.2; Cal-2137. 27.00 grams. Bold full pillars with full ornament at top, bold full cross-lions-castles, lustrous orange fields, two dates including the bottoms of all four digits 1724 in pillars-side legend (the 4 of the main date possibly modified from a 3), parts of king's name and six-point star ornament visible in cross-side legend, the finest of just three in the NGC census, both of the other two being just XF 45. Pedigreed to the Fernandina collection, and Plate Coin #283 in Oro Macuquino, by Rafael Tauler Fesser (2011).
($6000-9000)