Peru silver

goossen

From a swap with a stamps collector from Peru...

MSD61

Nice swap!

mercurynut

A worthy swap indeed!

oldshep

Why, that would fit very nicely into my Souoth American collection
Nice catch.
Shep

crito

Hey, I got one of those too



sorry for lousy freehand pic... too lazy to setup the tripod.

shirohniichan

Nice coin, Crito. How many Peruvian green stamps did that one cost you?

crito

A few... later 50% silver dates are surprisingly hard to find in higher grades. My Peruvian Sol collection now includes quite a few graded examples.

crito

Sorry for highjacking the thread BTW, just can't resist plugging my favorite series. Anyway, here are a few varieites from my last ANACS submission. The first is usually called "no fineness" or the "fineness omitted" variety, but ANACS chose to just put the KM# on the slab instead. Second variety has changed in the 2006 edition of my Krause and is now listed as 1924/823 instead of 1924/3. Third is unlisted in Krause but it is a 1915/4. Though I couldn't get them to put that on the slab they did recognize it as an overdate.



What really sux is I was preparing another submission with a 1393/893 variety (listed in Krause) and now ANACS changed their f***ing slabs. I want the old f***ing slab!

mrfred

this is a wonderful thread. The Sol is one of the most beautiful silver crowns out there, JUST IMO.

crito

Found I still have a couple old scans stored on this server, so here's one of the pretty side. Isn't quite as dull and luster-less as the scan makes it appear, but it was lightly cleaned long ago and has retoned around rim. In any case, it's probably the rarest 1915 variety, a class 3 doubled die. Also unlisted in Krause.

a039

Hello folks, I just purchased a 1870 un sol in VF + with a large die crack. What a astounding coin. I knew nothing about it but liked the design and the fact it was silver and reminded me of a trade dollar. I spent ten bucks on it...Thanks to you folks I now know alot more about it. Take care-Mark