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Lima, Peru, gold cob 8 escudos, 1699 R, legend HISPANIARVM, rare, Royal-like, ex-1715 Fleet, ex-Supe

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Lima, Peru, gold cob 8 escudos, 1699 R, legend HISPANIARVM, rare, Royal-like, ex-1715 Fleet, ex-Supe
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Lima, Peru, gold cob 8 escudos, 1699 R, legend HISPANIARVM, rare, Royal-like, ex-1715 Fleet, ex-Superior (Cover Coin), Tauler Plate, ex-Pullin. S-L26; KM-26.1; Cal-968. 27.00 grams. When this lovely coin first hit the market in 1997, its auction description caused quite a stir, calling it "Royal Round Presentation style"--in other words, a Royal! Indeed it bears a very choice strike, well centered and without doubling, on a very broad, round flan with full legends (including C.II. for Charles II) surrounding the choice full pillars-and-waves and cross-lions-castles. Added to that is a beautiful veneer of white, red, black and even green encrustation that was deemed too pretty to be conserved away to enable what could surely be a choice Mint State determination by the third-party graders. A very tiny edge-split--decidedly natural--sits at the top of the cross. Whether you believe in Lima gold Royals or not, this coin is a phenomenon and has to be the finest known for this early date. From the 1715 Fleet, pedigreed to the John Pullin Collection and to the Superior auction of December 1997 (NYINC), lot 264, plated in color and on the cover of the catalog, a copy of which accompanies this lot, also Plate Coin 113 on page 459 of Tauler's Oro Macuquino (2011).