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PERU, Lima, gold cob 1 escudo, 1711/0 M, rare, NGC MS 65 (1715 Fleet Shipwreck Label), finest known

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PERU, Lima, gold cob 1 escudo, 1711/0 M, rare, NGC MS 65 (1715 Fleet Shipwreck Label), finest known
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PERU, Lima, gold cob 1 escudo, 1711/0 M, rare, NGC MS 65 (1715 Fleet Shipwreck Label), finest known in NGC census, ex-Ubilla-Echevez, ex-Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, ex-Almenara. S-L28; Cal-1666; Fr-10; KM-35. 3.36 grams. Broad, oblong flan with pristine surfaces and bold full details, also lustrous, the choice castle side with spots of light red toning, and the cross struck from a slightly rusty die. The overdate, missed by both Christensen and Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, is visible as no more than a round top above the final 1. From the 1715 Fleet, with photo-certificate, pedigreed to the Real Eight Co. consignment as the Ubilla-Echevez Collection (stated on label) in the Christensen auction of October 1964 (lot 159) and in the Sotheby-Parke-Bernet (Los Angeles) auction of June 1973 (lot 592), and pedigreed to the Almenara Collection, also plated in Frank Allen's 1967 The Numismatist article "Previously Unknown Spanish Gold Coins."
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