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Santiago, Chile, gold bust 8 escudos, Ferdinand VI, 1750J, NGC MS 62, ex-Luz (designated on label).

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Santiago, Chile, gold bust 8 escudos, Ferdinand VI, 1750J, NGC MS 62, ex-Luz (designated on label).
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Santiago, Chile, gold bust 8 escudos, Ferdinand VI, 1750J, NGC MS 62, ex-Luz (designated on label). CT-70; KM-3. Brightly lustrous with lovely orange color all over in addition to faint rainbow hues, deeply impressed strike with bold rims as result, minor natural depression in bottom edge, scarce date from this wreck (not the usual 1751) and tied with five others for finest known in NGC census (besides a couple higher in PL and DPL). From the Luz (1752). NGC #4351151-001. Recovered from: Luz, sunk in 1752 off Montevideo, Uruguay