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Auction 21  15-16 January 2015
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Lot 2020

Starting price: 340 USD
Price realized: 550 USD
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VENEZUELA: AR 2 reales (4.91g), Caracas, year "781", Cr-13.1, assayer LM, struck by the Royalist or Republican forces 1810-21, good strike, VF, RR. These were among the first issues of the provisional Caracas mint, which had started operations in 1812 by issuing coins imitating the Lima cobs (macuquinas) then found in circulation, hence the LM initials as on the present example.

Estimate: 400- 500 USD
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