CNG 99, Lot: 1056. Estimate $300. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEXICO, Colonial. Carlos IV. King of Spain, 1788-1808. AR 8 Reales (38mm, 12h). Ciudad de México (Mexico City) mint; Tomás Butrón Miranda and Henrique Buenaventura Azorín, assayers. Dated 1804 Mo TH. · CAROLUS · IIII · DEI · GRATIA ·, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; 1804 below / · HISPAN · ET IND · REX · Mo · 8R · T · H ·, crowned coat-of-arms flanked by crowned composite columns with encircling banner inscribed PLUS VLTRA. BW 28.10 corr. (unlisted variety); Grove 1625; ME 13952; KM 109 corr. (unlisted variety). In NGC encapsulation graded MS 63. Toned. This is the normal variety, lacking the overdate and the CARLUS error, apparently erroneously omitted from KM and Bailey.