Nice rare Guatemala 8 Reales

TwoKopeiki

Wasn't me, unfortunately. No idea how it got past my daily eBay searches, but I think it has to do with my region defaulting to Canada and suppressing any US auctions without an international shipping option. An amazing score. Improperly described great rarity in Guatemala portrait colonial 8 Reales series. $4-$5,000 coin in a problem free VF plastic.

Abuelo

The first problem is that it got listed under Mexico...

bidask

Have not seen that date in a long time

Boosibri

bummer about the "H" in the field but great cherrypick

EVillageProwler

If the coin is $4k in a problem-free VF slab, then is almost $1k for the subject coin really a cherry-pick? That graffito in the right obverse field is prominent.

TwoKopeiki

@EVillageProwler said:
If the coin is $4k in a problem-free VF slab, then is almost $1k for the subject coin really a cherry-pick? That graffito in the right obverse field is prominent.

Maybe, maybe not. It has been a few years since the last example surfaced and another few years for the one before that.

MrEureka

@EVillageProwler said:
If the coin is $4k in a problem-free VF slab, then is almost $1k for the subject coin really a cherry-pick? That graffito in the right obverse field is prominent.

That should be easy enough to fix. Good deal.

jgenn

@MrEureka said:

@EVillageProwler said:
That graffito in the right obverse field is prominent.

That should be easy enough to fix. Good deal.

Oh, I'd like to hear how that might be accomplished.

TwoKopeiki

@jgenn said:

@MrEureka said:

@EVillageProwler said:
That graffito in the right obverse field is prominent.

That should be easy enough to fix. Good deal.

Oh, I'd like to hear how that might be accomplished.

pruebas

I have it on good authority that at least one of the early Mexican "Royals" in the Millennia Collection had a hole "expertly repaired" such that NGC straight graded it without notation on the holder. So yes, it happens.