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MEXICO, Mexico City, ½ real, Charles-Joanna, "Early Series," assayer P to right, mintmark M to left

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MEXICO, Mexico City, ½ real, Charles-Joanna,  Early Series,  assayer P to right, mintmark M to left
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MEXICO, Mexico City, ½ real, Charles-Joanna, "Early Series," assayer P to right, mintmark M to left of monogram (oMo-oPo), motto as PLV in left-leaning rhomboid panel with single annulets on either side, rare, NGC VF details / edge damage, ex-Sedwick-Downing (stated on label), ex-Hubbard, Nesmith Plate. Nesmith-23; S-M4; Cal-44; KM-6. 1.53 grams. Deeply toned with full interiors and virtually full legends, minor some spots and the edge perhaps a bit rounded. This is the Nesmith 23 plate drawing (the photo in the back of the book is of another coin), and while he listed examples in other collections (and there are numerous examples of this early HISPANIE variety for which there is also an assayer F/P shield-side die match), he chose to draw this one, as it is a clear example. Pedigreed to the Clyde Hubbard Collection, with his tag, and plated as a drawing on page 86 of Robert Nesmith's The Coinage of the First Mint of the Americas at Mexico City, 1536-1572 (1955), also pedigreed to the Sedwick-Downing Collection of Mexican Charles-Joanna Coinage.
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