Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1341. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEXICO, Colonial. Carlos IV. King of Spain, 1788-1808. AV 2 Escudos. Mexico City mint; Tomás Butrón Miranda and Enrique Buenaventura Azorín, assayers. Dated 1808. Armored and draped bust right, wearing Order of the Golden Fleece; date below / Crowned Spanish coat-of-arms; mark of value on either side; all within Order of the Golden Fleece; mintmark and assayers’ initials in exergue. ME 14306; SCM 132. In NGC slab graded AU 55.