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Re: North/South/Central American Coins Thursday, let's see them!
It's Thursday in Sydney, plus i'm very excited about this round of new additions to the collection. If you missed @OriginalDan 's post in 2014 on his acquisition of a number of Archer M Huntington 8 Reales coins, I would highly recommend reading this post with a nice write-up on Huntington and the wonderful pieces that Dan… -
Re: North/South/Central American Coins Thursday, let's see them!
In our favourite section “Coins you have never seen before, coins you are not likely to see ever again”, this specimen. Coins from the Early Series of the Charles and Johanna series for Mexico City are all rare, particularly lower denominations as the 4 reales were minted in larger numbers to ship to Spain. Assayer F is… -
Re: North/South/Central American Coins Thursday, let's see them!
Pruebas makes a valid point with "finest known". I have been a serious dedicated census researcher on bust quarters for over 24 years, which includes researching as many auction catalogues as one can get their hands into. Bust quarters are a very small niche category and many have become encapsulated throughout the years -… -
Re: North/South/Central American Coins Thursday, let's see them!
@Weiss LOL, perhaps some Mexican on New Year's Eve mate? All goofing around aside, nice 1948 5 Peso @ melt! I don't have stacks of them, but have a small cache of mostly the 1948-Mo .900 fine 5 pesos which are ubiquitous in dealer foreign silver bins. Also some of the .900 fine 1960-Mo 10 pesos although those aren't as… -
Re: North/South/Central American Coins Thursday, let's see them!
Happy Thursday! Here we go. A favourite of mine. I looked for one of these for a long time until I found this one. The details on the coin are outstanding with a clear Sun's face! The foliage on the ceiba is also quite nice for the grade. There are two recent books that I think summarise the history of this coin and…
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