Lot 1080
Mexico. 8 Reales, N.D. oMO (Mexico City), Flat Top 8; assayer O. WR-1 (round top 8); KM-43; Cal-244a; Calb - (unlisted variety). 26.92 grams. Philip II, 1556-1598. Retrograde D in Dei. Crowned Hapsburg shield.Reverse: Quartered arms of Castille and Leon in tressure. An especially good strike for type, with only modest weakness on reverse. Flan quite round, with handsome toning. Certainly among the finer known. NGC graded AU-50.
This coin figures as WR-1 in Wayte Raymond's The Silver Dollars of North and South America. At that time it was the only assured earliest dollar from the Mexico mint, and so of great significance for the numismatic history. The Rincon trial 8 Reales were only myth and rumor. However, with the discovery of the Rincon issue, lot 1073 in this collection, this coin steps from its pedastled position to something perhaps better than a footnote, since the flat top 8 is a rarer variety.
Estimated Value $8,000 - 10,000.
Ex F.C.C. Boyd Collection. Ex Superior A.N.A Sale, August 1975, lot 1932.
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