Lot 1120
Mexico - Republic. Pattern 8 Reales, 1823-Mo-JM (Mexico City). Buttrey Pn-21 (plate coin); KM-Pn-3 (plate coin). 26.93 grams. Hooknecked-eagle, left, holding looped defiant snake. Reverse: Liberty Cap, rays behind. Herringbone edge. Superior strike. Light hairlines from ancient cleaning hidden under fine old toning - multi-colored but strongly russet on the obverse recesses, and more towards the blues on the reverse. NGC graded Proof 63.
Estimated Value $50,000 - 60,000.
Ex Porraz Collection. Possibly UNIQUE, and the only known specimen in private hands. The most significant crown of the Mexican Republic!
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