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27.00 grams, 35.50 mm. Type as above / crowned arms, garter around, legends, assayer, and
mintmark around. Medium gold with rich toning at the rims, plenty of lustre on both sides
but most abundant on the reverse, tiny scattered marks in fields, very attractive and
natural in appearance. Better than any of the 8 escudos of the "rat nose" design
type in the Gerber or Norweb collections. A very popular and highly elusive coin. Calico
rates this date-assayer combination as very rare. ($4,500-7,500)From the John H. Clapp
Collection; Clapp estate to Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., 1942. Plated in Waye Raymond's
Spanish-American Gold Coins, 1936, and in serial form in Coin Collector's Journal, Vol. 1
#3, June 1934, p. 56.
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