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Lima, Peru, cob 4 reales Royal, 1731N, very rare.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Cobs - Lima Silver Start Price:3,500.00 USD Estimated At:4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD
Lima, Peru, cob 4 reales Royal, 1731N, very rare.
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Lima, Peru, cob 4 reales Royal, 1731N, very rare. S-L21; KM-R33a; CT-964. 13.34 grams. Beautiful full inner details but no legends (as made, on a thick, round flan), XF with lovely toning all over, remarkable as unholed and without doubling, really a superb beauty overall. Lima Royals are among the rarest cobs (especially the 4R) and present a great contrast to the regular issues of this mint, for the Royals like this piece show full details on the pillars (typically fat and with huge flame-like crowns at top) and the cross with castles and lions (which look like hunched over monkeys with bulbous tails), data that is typically weak in places on non-Royals as struck over uneven surfaces (chunky flans). Pedigreed to the Santa Rosa de Lima collection and to the Christensen auction of June 1977 (lot #827), the Swiss Bank Corp. auction of September 1997 (lot #2394) and the Swiss Bank Corp. auction of September 1991 (lot #132) (Emilio Ortiz collection).