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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 618

NGC MS64 | Peru, Philip V (1700-1746), 8-Escudos, 1712 L-M, Lima, ANO 712 at end of legend, [X] PHILIPPVS [.] V . D [G HISPANIAR], commencing at 12 o'clock, coat of arms (Jerusalem Cross potent dividing alternating castles and lions), rev. ET VND[IARVM R]EX ANO 712, crowned pillars on waves, dividing L | 8 | M // P | V | A // 7 | 1 | 2 in three lines, 27.02g, 6h, i.m. X (Cal. 2120; Onza 242 [Few Examples known]; Oro Macuquino 242; KM 38.2; Fb. 7), small flan split at 6 o'clock, and with characteristic clipped edges, otherwise residually lustrous, a pleasing extremely fine, a very rare variety according to Onza, in NGC holder, graded MS64 (Cert. #8220520-004)

Provenance

The "Estafefette No. 21" Collection of Ancient, English and World Coins

Margaret Amstell, by private treaty, 1 July 1982 [with her ticket]

Christie's, 22 June 1982, lot 253 , "nearly extremely fine" - £820

Undoubtedly recovered from the wreck of the 1715 Plate Fleet



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Sold for
£18,000

Starting price
£5000