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Anyone like Peru Sol's?
ShadyDave
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Peru Sol's are one of my favorite foreign coins to collect. They were made for a long time, they have many over dates, errors, counter stamps and varieties that keep me interested in collecting them. They're also pretty underappreciated and cheap...
During the years these were .500 silver (1923-1935), there were a bunch of years that were low mintage. The key date being 1933 with 5,000 minted. I've been collecting Sol's for a few years now and I've never seen a MS 1933 example sold. I know there are about 10 floating around due to the NGC/PCGS pop reports, but I was delighted to snag this one off an eBay "buy it now" for $50 raw.
I sent this in for restoration to hopefully get rid of the red mark on the reverse. The coin was accepted on 6/6 for restoration but doesn't look any different from when I submitted it and I had it back in hand on 7/6 from a regular submission (I wasn't expecting that). It was probably bumped down a grade or two for the mark, but oh well....
During the years these were .500 silver (1923-1935), there were a bunch of years that were low mintage. The key date being 1933 with 5,000 minted. I've been collecting Sol's for a few years now and I've never seen a MS 1933 example sold. I know there are about 10 floating around due to the NGC/PCGS pop reports, but I was delighted to snag this one off an eBay "buy it now" for $50 raw.
I sent this in for restoration to hopefully get rid of the red mark on the reverse. The coin was accepted on 6/6 for restoration but doesn't look any different from when I submitted it and I had it back in hand on 7/6 from a regular submission (I wasn't expecting that). It was probably bumped down a grade or two for the mark, but oh well....
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Great pick-up.
Thanks!
Wow, $50??!!?? Mintage 5000 and in mint state. Any idea what the red spot is, or if NCS might have a different skill set in terms of conservation? I'm not sure the spot would bother me on this coin, but if it's a thing that might get worse or is unstable I'd want it gone. That said, I'm sure PCGS's service could get rid of something harmful.
I'm not really sure what the red spot is. I tried soaking it in pure acetone for a few minutes, but it didn't come off at all...so I decided to send it in and let PCGS restoration try. Since these are only .500 silver, there could be a lot of other metals mixed in, I'm sure copper being one of the major ones.
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Here are some in-hand if you wanted to see how it looks from an iphone. Almost proof-like...but that damn red spot!
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