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1813 2 reales in gold, type of Morelos. |
| Description: |
7.41 grams, 21.30 mm. 1813 with 2R and monogram above, 16-square lattice countermark / SUD
with bow and arrow above, five-leaved flower countermark. Deep yellow gold with warm
orange highlights, some chasing and burnishing visible around SUD and other reverse design
elements. A famous and important coin, pedigreed to several of the finest Latin American
cabinets ever formed by Americans, and potentially a piece of great signifance to serious
students of Mexican numismatics. An unusual piece produced in gold, "cast using a
copper two-reales of the plain background type as a pattern" in the words of Pradeau.
Pradeau, as noted above, felt that this coin is "without doubt genuine" and
described it extensively in his 1938 Numismatic History of Mexico. He suggests further
that those gold coins "now available are either fabrications since the time of
Morelos or are genuine experimental or gift pieces." While other cast gold Morelos
types are dismissed as fabrications made for collectors in the period in the 19th century
when this series enjoyed a renaissance of popularity, Pradeau and others have placed the
present coin in the latter category. A long and distinguished succession of knowledgeable
collectors have placed this unique and interesting item in their cabinet; Mr. Clapp paid
$60 for the privilege in 1935. The present auction appearance allows this fascinating item
to be studied by a new generation of numismatists for a modern conclusion.
($2,500-4,500)From the Harry F. Williams Collection; plated in the 1914 AJN monograph
"The Gold Coins of Latin America," Plate X, 1; sold to Waldo C. Newcomer ca.
1918; J.C. Morgenthau and Co. (Wayte Raymond)'s sale of the Newcomer Collection, February
1935, Lot 416; John M. Clapp Collection; Clapp estate to Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., 1942.
Plated in A.F. Pradeau, Numismatic History of Mexico, (1938), Plate XIV, 1.
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| Price: |
$9,200.00 (2005-04-15) |
| Original page: |
http://www.stacks.com/lotdetail.aspx?lri
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