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CNG 99, Lot: 1079. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEXICO, Primera República. 1823-1863. AV 8 Escudos (36mm, 27.22 g, 6h). Guadalupe y Calvo mint; Manuel Onofre Parodi, assayer. Dated 1847 GC MP. REPUBLICA MEXICANA, eagle standing facing on cactus, wings spread, grasping snake in beak and right talon; all atop laurel and oak wreath / LA LIBERTAD EN LA LEY, hand left, pointing to open book inscribed LEY and holding liberty cap on pole; below, (star) 8E.GC.1847.M.P.21QS.. BW 212.06; Grove 4911; Calicó 2067; KM 383.6. With NGC Photocertificate graded MS 62.


Ex Louis E. Eliasberg Collection (American Numismatic Rarities, 18 April 2005), lot 3291; John H. Clapp Collection.