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Re: 1831 Costa Rica 8 Reales
It's an interesting hypothesis. Too bad there hasn't been a single image of a fully struck example of the F die that would match this ambiguous one. How likely is the mint striking a handful of coins… (View Post)1 -
Re: 1831 Costa Rica 8 Reales
Interesting coin. I did a quick search through the archives for the different assayers and the die with the die crack in the E in CRESCA comes up often and it's an E assayer die. Except it also looks… (View Post)1 -
Re: North/South/Central American Coins Thursday, let's see them!
This toning reminds me of a european collection of high grade crowns that was sold by WAG over a number of different sessions in 2021. A lot of them exhibited similar type toning that looked great at… (View Post)3 -
Re: North/South/Central American Coins Thursday, let's see them!
Inexpensive and scarce. One of my own previous discoveries - TH/HJ over-assayer. The die pair with the obverse repuching on the 8 in the date. (View Post)6 -
Re: What do you think - same obverse die? (update in last post)
Received the coin. Does appear to be the 1789/8 overdate and the same die pair as used on the example I already have in the collection. Yonaka M8-89-IIIa - R3 with under 5 examples documented. (View Post)1