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PERU, Lima, gold cob 4 escudos, 1750 R, mule with 8E cross side, rare, NGC MS 63 (Shipwreck Blue Lab

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PERU, Lima, gold cob 4 escudos, 1750 R, mule with 8E cross side, rare, NGC MS 63 (Shipwreck Blue Lab
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PERU, Lima, gold cob 4 escudos, 1750 R, mule with 8E cross side, rare, NGC MS 63 (Shipwreck Blue Label), ex-Sotheby's. S-L31; Cal-692; KM-A47; Fr-13. 13.48 grams. Very sharp and lustrous, the pillars full but slightly off-center and the oversized cross (8E die) more so, two clear dates (the second one below the cross rarely seen), currently tied with six others for second finest in NGC census behind a single MS 64 (all from the Luz). Pedigreed to Sotheby's Uruguayan Treasure of the River Plate auction of March 1993 (lot 544). Recovered from: Luz, sunk in 1752 off Montevideo, Uruguay
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