Recent Baldwins Purchase

mnemtsas2

I got this one from the recent auction of Spanish colonial coins held by Baldwin's, an 1819R 960R from Brazil. Despite this being the most common date/mint in the 960R series I really like it because it has two dates and the strongest under-type I've got on any of this series. Despite almost no familiarity with Spanish colonial mints I've managed (with the assistance of Krause) to work out that it was struck on over a Lima 1818 8R with the assayer's initial JP. Given that the Peruvian 8R was only one year old when over-struck I wonder how much actual circulation it had seen?

JCMhouston

Very cool, that's about the storngest under sate I have seen.

lordmarcovan

I've seen some strong undertypes, but when you can pin down the date and mint of the host coin, well, then... wow.