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Potosi, Bolivia, gold 1 scudo, 1839, Constitution, PCGS AU58, ex-Eliasberg (stated on label).

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Potosi, Bolivia, gold 1 scudo, 1839, Constitution, PCGS AU58, ex-Eliasberg (stated on label).
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Potosi, Bolivia, gold 1 scudo, 1839, Constitution, PCGS AU58, ex-Eliasberg (stated on label). Burnett-15; Fonrobert-9522. Obverse with palm tree inside legend POTOSI ALA CONSTITUCION DEL ANO 1839 .; reverse with standing angel holding the open-book Constitution and blowing the word LIBER / TAD from horn to right above cornucopia, legend REPUBLICA BOLIVIANA to left; diagonally reeded edge. Traces of old purple toning over luster in legends, clean fields, minimal wear on high points, rare and desirable first gold issue in the Bolivian monetary medals series, this example with a long and desirable pedigree. Pedigreed to the Eliasberg collection, and before that as follows: Henry Chapman sale of the John Story Jenks collection, December 1921, lot 6972 (plated); J.C. Morgenthau and Co. (Wayte Raymond) sale of the Waldo C. Newcomer collection, February 1935, lot 50 (unplated, described as "Uncirculated"); John H. Clapp Collection; Clapp estate to Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., 1942. PCGS #32917087. The Whittier Collection of Bolivian Monetary Medals