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Mexico City, Mexico, klippe 8 reales, 1734MF, with rare, multiple single-cloud-over-volcano counterm

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Cobs - Mexico Silver Start Price:275.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 450.00 USD
Mexico City, Mexico, klippe 8 reales, 1734MF, with rare, multiple single-cloud-over-volcano counterm
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Mexico City, Mexico, klippe 8 reales, 1734MF, with rare, multiple single-cloud-over-volcano countermarks (Type I, 1838) of Quetzaltenango (Los Altos). S-M28; KM-48; CT-770. 26.7 grams. Choice broad flan cut to be close to square, with choice full details (the flan extending well beyond the legends), especially the date and MF, toned VF and holed as usual; but most important is the presence (albeit muddled) of at least 4 (on top of each other in 2 places) countermarks with distinctively long rays for the independent region of Los Altos (whose capital is Quetzaltenango), which broke from the rest of Guatemala (later re-annexed by Carrera) during the 1838-40 civil war in which the brief Central American Republic split into the separate nations we see today.