Neat new Mexico Portrait 8 Reales variety - 1796 G(R/A)ATIA

TwoKopeiki

After noticing the anomaly in the recent Stacks BKingdom Collection sale, I spent a few hours going through hundreds of 1796's in various online archives looking for a matching die. A PCGS example was found by a "Coins" Discord user VTJedi and i was able to confirm the die pair and start identifying some die markers. I sent a note to Brad Yonaka with my findings and he agreed that it is likely a repunched R/A because of how specific the geometry is.

NGC AU58 (my example)

Second coin - PCGS AU53 secure plus image

lightened up and cropped to show the letter overlay

One of the reverse die markers:

I have another neat one I'm researching now that could be also something new and will post when i find some more definitive examples.

Would love to hear the group's thoughts on this.

Euclid

Very cool @TwoKopeiki !! It's exciting and encouraging that there are new discoveries like this out there waiting to be made.

TwoKopeiki

Thanks @Euclid . It's a fun way to pass the time, that's for sure

JesseKraft

Very cool! Congratulations!! Did you catch Brad's talk over the weekend in the NNP Symposium? Highly-enjoyable!

TwoKopeiki

@JesseKraft said:
Very cool! Congratulations!! Did you catch Brad's talk over the weekend in the NNP Symposium? Highly-enjoyable!

I have not, unfortunately. I'm looking forward to the presentations being uploaded to the Newman Numismatic Portal by Mid-Sept or thereabouts.

Abuelo

Nice @TwoKopeiki

Boosibri

Great eye