Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1347. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEXICO, Republic (First). 1823-1863. AV Half Escudo. Guadalupe y Calvo mint; Manuel Onofre Parodi, assayer. Dated 1847. Eagle standing facing on cactus, head and tail right, with wings displayed, holding serpent in beak and talon; plowed field below; all set on oak and olive branches / Hand, holding Liberty cap on staff, pointing left to open book inscribed LEY; in exergue, mintmark, date, and assayers’ initials. SCM 378.3. In NGC slab graded AU 58.

Ex Louis E. Eliasberg Collection (American Numismatic Rarities, 18 April 2005), lot 3294; Thomas W. Voetter Collection (Mehl 100, 26 January 1943), lot 112.