Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2022 NYINC Auction 14-16 Jan 2022
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VENEZUELA. 2 Bolivares, 1889. Caracas Mint. PCGS Genuine--Cleaned, EF Details.
KM-Y-23; Stohr-48. A VERY RARE date from an incredibly low mintage of only 50,000 pieces. While seen infrequently, most survivors show extensive circulation, qualifying them for Very Fine or lesser grades. In contrast, the highpoint detail is quite sharp on this example, presenting full segmentation through Bolivar's hair and within the reverse shield. The surfaces, a light gray in color, display evidence of past cleaning with some intermittent micro-roughness. Despite the past handling, a coin that easily qualifies as the second best example (the best being a NGC-graded AU-58 that brought $47,000 in 2014) within archived auctions results that date back nearly two decades. To view all items from the Centuria Collection, click here.
From the Centuria Collection.
Estimate: $700 - $1000
KM-Y-23; Stohr-48. A VERY RARE date from an incredibly low mintage of only 50,000 pieces. While seen infrequently, most survivors show extensive circulation, qualifying them for Very Fine or lesser grades. In contrast, the highpoint detail is quite sharp on this example, presenting full segmentation through Bolivar's hair and within the reverse shield. The surfaces, a light gray in color, display evidence of past cleaning with some intermittent micro-roughness. Despite the past handling, a coin that easily qualifies as the second best example (the best being a NGC-graded AU-58 that brought $47,000 in 2014) within archived auctions results that date back nearly two decades. To view all items from the Centuria Collection, click here.
From the Centuria Collection.
Estimate: $700 - $1000