Watch List notes:

Mexico City, Mexico, cob 4 reales, 1731 F, with countermark "Sumenep" in Malay Arabic script in box on reverse for circulation on Madura Island, Indonesia (1/2 real batu, 1814), NGC VF 25, c/s XF standard. Host: S-M26; KM-40a; Cal-1094. 13.22 grams. Off-center strike with choice full date and oMF to left of nearly full shield, most of cross above full and clear countermark punched over some light Malay-script graffiti, nicely toned with contrastingly dark fields. Pedigreed to the Clyde Hubbard Collection, with his original tag/envelope, and to the Ponterio auction of May 1987, with original lot-tag 1142.


Estimate: 300 - 450 USD