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Bogota, Colombia, 20 pesos, 1859, encapsulated NGC AU-50, very rare.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Dr. Frank Sedwick Collection of Colombian Coins Start Price:6,000.00 USD Estimated At:7,500.00 - 10,000.00 USD
Bogota, Colombia, 20 pesos, 1859, encapsulated NGC AU-50, very rare.
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Bogota, Colombia, 20 pesos, 1859, encapsulated NGC AU-50, very rare. Sedwick-27. Restrepo-236. KM-130. Lovely, satin-smooth fields with muted luster, slightly crude rims with minor bruise, a visually very imposing and impressive example of a popular one-year type, the largest coin of this government. Sedwick says: "Although some other Colombian gold coins are rarer, the 1859 Bogota 20 pesos remains the most sought of all large Colombian gold coins, because it is a known rarity, a one-year type, a beautiful design with a youthful liberty head, and the only big gold coin of the Confederacion Granadina." About six specimens known from an original mintage of just 2,002 pieces, valued in XF in KM at $8,400, but also note that the Millennia specimen (Goldberg, 2008) in AU-58 sold for $18,000! Bowers & Ruddy 2/77 via Lou Collins 5/77, and prior to that Superior 6/74, where it sold for $6,750. Dr. Frank Sedwick collection of Colombian Republic gold coins