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MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
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From yesterday's Ponterio auction.

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Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,843 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great looking examples-


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  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,559 ✭✭✭
    Nice coins. Where would the dies for these have been made?
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  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    nice!!!
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Where would the dies for these have been made?

    I suppose they were probably made in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The workmanship is very much unlike the Guatemala issues.
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  • OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Very nice pickups Andy! image
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  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice pieces.
  • bosoxbosox Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice coins Andy.

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What? Nobody wants to guess how they'll slab?
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What? Nobody wants to guess how they'll slab? >>




    They look like the work of Xu Chen. image


    BTW, did you have a Popper coin?
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BTW, did you have a Popper coin?

    I don't. For a while, I did have the Eliasberg piece in partnership with Kagins, but they have since purchased my share. One day, I hope it finds its way back to me.
    Andy Lustig

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  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Do you have plans to slab? I would guess EF-45 on the first and AU-53 on the second, but again, I literally have zero exposure to grading these types. Am I in the ballpark?
  • LynchLynch Posts: 299


    << <i>What? Nobody wants to guess how they'll slab? >>


    Does it really matter? Would the coins somehow become better or worse as a result?
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Do you have plans to slab?

    No. I only slab coins when I'm ready to sell them.
    Andy Lustig

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,885 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why Honduras?

    I mean, why not, but wonder what makes you collect Honduras specifically?

    (Aside from the fact that a lot of Latin American stuff is pretty interesting.)

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  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Does it really matter? Would the coins somehow become better or worse as a result? >>



    Of course not. I've been around long enough to hear the slab conversations on both sides of the table.

    I was really more interested in hearing opinions on grades since I do not collect pieces from this side of the pond.

  • LynchLynch Posts: 299


    << <i>

    << <i>Does it really matter? Would the coins somehow become better or worse as a result? >>



    Of course not. I've been around long enough to hear the slab conversations on both sides of the table.

    I was really more interested in hearing opinions on grades since I do not collect pieces from this side of the pond. >>



    My questions were not directed to you.

    In any event, the OP has answered them more than adequately.
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I mean, why not, but wonder what makes you collect Honduras specifically?

    I collect all Latin American issues of the Independence Era, and some early Republican issues. Honduras is just part of it.

    As for the condition of the 4 reales, it's AU in terms of wear and luster. (The color and luster in the image are not accurate.) It does have some verdigris that will be removed sometime soon. The 2 reales is barely XF.
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  • SpaceMonkeySpaceMonkey Posts: 3,311 ✭
    those are some very appealing coins... image





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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great coins.

    Here's a stupid question. That top coin looks older than 1824 to me. Do you know the date?

    Is that the die failing under the 2r on the second coin?
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That top coin looks older than 1824 to me. Do you know the date?


    It really is 1824. The equipment available in Honduras in 1824 was far from "state of the art".


    Is that the die failing under the 2r on the second coin?


    No, it's double struck.
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