Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1043. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEXICO, Colonial. Carlos I. King of Spain, 1516-1558. AR 4 Reales (13.61 g, 2h). Mexico City mint; Pedro de Espina, assayer. Pillars and Waves Early Series. Struck 1541-1544. KAROLVS ET IOHANA RE (double annulet; four-petalled flower stops), crowned royal coat-of-arms; M and P, each with pellet-in-annulet above and below, across field / + HISPANIARVM ET INDIARVM RE (mascle stops), banner inscribed with PIVS and pair of annulets flanking, and pellet-in-annulets at each corner, behind pair of crowned columns; 4 in field between capitals. Menzel Type III, Mx-63; cf. ME 3120; cf. SCM 16. EF, toned. Well-struck.