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27.02 grams, 37.10 mm. Type as above. Rich orange gold with considerable lustre remaining,
nearly full on the reverse. Scattered marks but very appealing, a challenging date among
this elusive type. ($3,500-6,000)This date is called "pocos ejamplares
conocidos" (few examples known) in Calico.From the John H. Clapp Collection; Clapp
estate to Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., 1942. Plated in Wayte Raymond's Spanish American Gold
Coins, 1936, and the serial published in Coin Collector's Journal, Vol. 1, #10, January
1935, p. 224.
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