Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1333. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEXICO, Colonial. Carlos III. King of Spain, 1759-1788. AR 8 Reales. Mexico City mint; Manuel Assorín and Francisco de Rivera, assayers. Dated 1768. Crowned Spanish coat-of-arms; assayers’ initials and value on either side / Crowned hemispheres, set on Gibralter, between crowned and banner-entwined pillars of Hercules; all set on ocean; mintmark in legend, date in exergue. ME 11958; SCM 105. In NGC slab graded AU 55.