The Lissner Collection, Lot: 1328. Estimate $10000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CHILE, Colonial. Carlos III. King of Spain, 1759-1788. AR 8 Reales (40mm, 27.02 g, 12h). Santiago mint. Domingo Eizaguirre and Augustin de Infante y Prado, assayers. Dated 1779 So DA. Calicó 1030; KM 31. In NGC encapsulation graded MS 62. Beautiful lustrous faintly toned obverse with a satiny lightly toned reverse. Just a slight weakness of strike on the right side of the shield. Extremely rare type coin, as are all Carlos III 8 reales, and this is the finest example this cataloger has ever seen. Only one other coin of this type has ever reached MS 62, none are graded higher.