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I had a great year looking back. My acquisitions had it all for me, rarities, oddities, provenance, tough dates, and gold. The 1832 provisional 2 reales and the 1829 Estado de Guatemala 1 real are bo… (View Post)

I recently added this escudo to my collection and filled a hole in my mint+denomination set. The entire gold series is pretty much aspirational for me so when I found this coin for sale at a price I … (View Post)

I benefited from a strange coincidence after my last post on 2 reales, namely that I came across another shortly after posting! This is the 1832 Honduras provisional silver 2 reales and I'm extremely… (View Post)

I'm wondering if anybody has information on this countermark. There are two examples I have found, one raw and one slabbed. NGC said "Private Countermark" on the slabbed example, but there'… (View Post)

Posting on behalf of a friend who is not on the forums. Both of us were curious about this recent auction sale of a Guatemala 1 real from 1768. As can be seen below, the coin is holed and quite worn,… (View Post)