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26.54 grams, 36.70 mm. Types as above. Lustrous medium gold with deep highlights, tiny rim
nicks on the obverse above RIO DE, light repair between N of UNION and Y on reverse.
Exceptional grade for this famous and attractive type, a favorite among Latin American
coins for its design. Plated in a standard reference and provenanced to three of the most
important collections of Latin American coins ever assembled. ($4,500-7,500)This date
called "rara" (rare) in Calico.From J.C. Morgenthau and Co. (Wayte Raymond)'s
sale of the Waldo C. Newcomer collection, February 1935, Lot 1; the John H. Clapp
Collection; Clapp estate to Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., 1942. Plated in Wayte Raymond's The
Gold Coins of South America, 1936; and in the serial published in Coin Collector's
Journal, January 1937, Vol. 3, #10, p. 212.
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