CNG 99, Lot: 1081. Estimate $400. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEXICO, Primera República. 1823-1863. AV 1/2 Escudo (15mm, 1.67 g, 6h). Guadalupe y Calvo mint; Manuel onofre Parodi, assayer. Dated 1848/7 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) 1/2E.GC.1848.M.P.21Q^S.. BW 207.3; Grove 4888; KM 378.3. With NGC Photocertificate graded MS 62.

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).