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Treasure Auction 30  4-8 Nov 2021
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Lot 892

Starting price: 700 USD
Price realized: 1300 USD
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Bogota, Colombia, cob 1 real, 1653 R, mintmark N below P-LV-S, rare, NGC AU 53, ex-Eldorado and Nesmith Plate (both stated on label), finest known in NGC census. Restrepo-M24.9; S-B7; KM-9; Cal-778. 3.49 grams. Choice grade with sharp details (and even some traces of luster) despite doubling on both sides, the shield and pillars nevertheless full and with clear 653 of date on pillars side (10-11 o'clock in legend), the doubling curiously causing the top-right lion to drop to the bottom quadrant, making the shield look like both bottom quadrants have lions. Pedigreed to the Eldorado collection (Stack's Bowers auction of January 2018, lot 11102) and plated in Robert Nesmith's 1958 article "A Hoard of the First Silver Coins of Nuevo Reino de Granada," coin #10b on plate XXXI and in a line drawing on page 527.
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