Triton XIV, Lot: 1629. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VIRREINATO DE NUEVA ESPAÑA, Mexico. Carlos IV. King of Spain, 1788-1808. AR 8 Reales. Milled portrait type, wide date variety. Ciudad de México mint; Tomás Butrón y Miranda and Henrique Buenaventura Azorín, assayers. Dated 1805Mo TH. · CAROLUS · IIII · DEI · GRATIA ·, laureate, draped, and armored bust right; 1805 in exergue / · HISPAN · ET IND · REX · (mintmark) · 8R · T · H ·, crowned abbreviated royal coat-of-arms; to left and right, column with encircling banner inscribed PLUS VLTRA (further beyond). ME 13960; Calicó 704. In NGC slab graded AU 55, lustrous, a few light adjustment marks.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.