CNG 99, Lot: 1080. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEXICO, Primera República. 1823-1863. AV 1/2 Escudo (16mm, 1.74 g, 6h). Culiacán mint; Clemente Espinosa de los Monteros. Dated 1848 C CE. 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) 1/2E.C.1848.C.E.21Q^S.. BW 207; Grove 4659; KM 378. With NGC Photocertificate graded MS 61. Weakly struck on a slightly rough planchet.

Ex Louis E. Eliasberg Collection (American Numismatic Rarities, 18 April 2005), lot 3300; Thomas W. Voetter Collection (B. Max Mehl, 26 January 1943), lot 112 (part of).