Description: 1705 Peru King Felipe V Gold Cob 8 Escudos NGC MS63 Famed 1715 Fleet Shipwreck Ultra Rare. One of 7 known graded this is the 2nd Highest Graded. This is a 1715 Fleet Shipwreck Find. I bought this out of a Florida Collection from the 1990’s. Fresh to the market! True Pirate Gold Spanish Cobs of Peru One of the most fascinating areas of world coin collecting is that of Spanish colonials. These coins circulated freely during the colonial period of the New World, both North America and South America. You can find essentially the same coins minted in the Spanish colonies of Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru, from the early 1600s to the early 1800s. They circulated as far north as Canada and as far east as Florida. Serious coin collectors generally concentrate on rarity and perfection—the more perfect the coin, the more desirable and valuable it is. The gold cobs of Lima and Cuzco, Peru, however, are the exception, and their beautiful design and execution are finally getting the attention they deserve from an increasing cadre of new collectors of means all over the world, with still many decades to go before these coins hit the six-figure levels of comparable US coins. Perhaps most important, the gold cobs of Peru have a unique design, which was not made at any other Old World or New World Spanish mint. But it is the execution of this design that is remarkable in Peruvian gold cobs, for practically every specimen is well centered, with clear date and assayer and mintmark and usually with most of the characters in the legends at least partially visible, on a round flan of uniform thickness and consistent weight (albeit about an eighth of a gram below the standard of 27.064 grams). Compare this to the odd-shaped and haphazardly struck gold cobs of Mexico and Colombia, which seldom show clear dates, castles, Lions, mintmarks and assayers. Obverse Coat-of-arms. Script: Latin Reverse Crowned pillars of Hercules set on ocean waves. Script: Latin Mint Lima, Peru (1565-date) Guaranteed Genuine by NGC World Division Look for us at Capstonecoins.com Austin TX
Price: 47880.69 USD
Location: Austin, Texas
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Certification: NGC
Year: 1705
Composition: Gold
Currency: Escudo
Grade: MS 63
Country/Region of Manufacture: Peru
Denomination: 8 Escudos
Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated
