| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61372 | Auction date: 19 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 22130 Price realized: 180 USD (Approx. 167 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Honduras Republic Provisional 2 Pesos 1862 T-A MS61 Brown NGC, Tegucigalpa mint, KM25. Dots separate legends. An unknown quantity was struck in London, England, despite the Tegucigalpa mint mark. https://coins.ha.com/itm/honduras/honduras-republic-provisional-2-pesos-1862-t-a-ms61-brown-ngc-/a/61372-22130.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61372-02192024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61372 | Auction date: 19 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 22128 Price realized: 150 USD (Approx. 139 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Honduras Republic Provisional Peso 1862 T-A AU55 Brown NGC, Tegucigalpa mint, KM24. Dots separate legends. An unknown quantity was struck in London, England, despite the Tegucigalpa mint mark. The Peso denomination appears less frequently at auction than the accompanying 2, 4, and 8 Pesos issues. https://coins.ha.com/itm/honduras/honduras-republic-provisional-peso-1862-t-a-au55-brown-ngc-/a/61372-22128.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61372-02192024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3113 | Auction date: 8 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 31206 Price realized: 19,000 USD (Approx. 17,320 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Honduras Republic gold 10 Pesos 1883 AU50 NGC, Tegucigalpa mint, KM58, Fr-5. A most appreciable and desirable date and denomination from Honduras. The 10 and 20 Pesos issues of 1883 remain as absolute rarities, seen at market once every few years despite a group of 13 pieces uncovered in the early 2000s. One of only four pieces have been witnessed in the last decade with each in comparable preservation. However, this example is one of the nicer coins from the recently uncovered group and thus represents an important numismatic item, one which is virtually unattainable to most collectors. The aforementioned group of thirteen 1883 10 Pesos were struck at a slightly later date, as was accepted and legal practice at the Tegucigalpa mint, probably as wedding tokens of a (very) wealthy groom for his future wife. This in indeed confirmed by two almost contemporary and independent reports proving that Honduras did not strike regular issue gold coins until 1888: a testimony from Mr. Consul Herring on the Honduran coinage of 1885 included in the 1888 "Report of the (United States) Director of the Mint" states that "There has never been any gold coined in the country" while Esteban Lazo ("Historia de la Moneda en Honduras", October 16, 1888) indicates that the first gold in denominations of 20, 5 and 1 peso (note the absence of the 10 Pesos denomination) minted in "... May of this year (of 1888) were the first gold coins minted in Honduras and, as such, will represent a milestone in the story of the country". Many of the 13 pieces from the wedding dowry have been harshly cleaned, and most all have at least some evidence of light cleaning. Several have been polished, or have other similar problems. Ex. Heritage Auction #3051 (January 2015, Lot 31192) https://coins.ha.com/itm/honduras/honduras-republic-gold-10-pesos-1883-au50-ngc-/a/3113-31206.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3113-01082024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Estimate: 8000-12000 USD |  |
Match 3:
| Heritage World Coin Auctions > CSNS Signature Sale 3115 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 32623 Price realized: To Be Posted | |
| Lot description: Honduras Provisional Government Cob 1/2 Real 1823 MS63 NGC, Tegucigalpa mint, KM7.1. 1.51g. Imitation Cob issue. Flashy argent surfaces adorned by maple toning and a sharp strike. The final numeral of the date is off flan. This is an extremely rare offering, the only Mint State offering recognized by NGC. Ex. Richard Stuart Collection https://coins.ha.com/itm/honduras/honduras-provisional-government-cob-1-2-real-1823-ms63-ngc-/a/3115-32623.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3115-05082024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61374 | Auction date: 12 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 22213 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | |
| Lot description: Honduras Central American Republic 2 Reales 1831 T-F VF35 NGC, Tegucigalpa mint, KM9.3. Struck on an overweight planchet. 9.44gm. A most curious example struck on an atypical planchet, yet relaying ample detail despite the moderately handled conditional assignment. https://coins.ha.com/itm/honduras/honduras-central-american-republic-2-reales-1831-t-f-vf35-ngc-/a/61374-22213.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61374-05122024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61364 | Auction date: 17 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 21094 Price realized: 675 USD (Approx. 620 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Bolivia Philip IV "Capitana" Cob 8 Reales 1652 P-E VF Details (Saltwater Damage) NGC, Potosi mint, KM-A20.7, Cal-Type 330. 19.07gm. HP monogram below crown. An eye-catching piece retaining very sharp pillars, with a bold date in the legends, and a good shield despite surface corrosion. Organized by the assayers and other mint workers, the plan behind the "Potosi Scandal" was to reduce the purity of their coins while the thieves kept the remaining silver for themselves. The impacts were immense, even shaking Spain's reputation with the Asian trade, where merchants had the upmost trust for the Spanish Cob's silver quality. A transition of coinages occurred, full of unsuccessful attempts to uniformize the currency, one of them being the countermarking of the scandal coins with Crowned letters (or crowns alone), reducing the 8 Reales to 7 1/2 Reales. To set in stone the "New Potosi mint", a new style of Cobs was created (Pillars and Waves) and the scandal coins, countermarked or not, were to be re-melted/destroyed. The wreck of the Capitana, or the lead ship of the Spanish South Seas (Pacific) Fleet, would become the largest loss ever experienced by the Spanish armada. After striking the Punta Santa Elena reefs, The Jesus María de la Limpia Concepción lost a reported 3,000,000 pesos of silver, extended to a total of approximately 10 million pesos when considering the un-recorded contraband and treasure aboard. Sadly, due to the unregistered cargo that was stored atop the anchor cables and foredeck, the crew was unable to use the anchors for safe stoppage. For context, the entire annual silver production in Peru was around 6-7 million pesos, suggesting that the Concepción was carrying almost one and a half years of peso production. For eight years after the wreck, the Spanish managed to salvage a vast majority of the lost 'official' 3 million pesos and would later recover even more coins, causing a scandal due to the mismatch of monetary records. Ironically, and sadly, the main salvager of the wreck was the Concepción's silver master, Bernardo de Campos, who is blamed for the overload of unregistered contraband that contributed to the ship's tragedy. The lowest deck would be unreachable until modern divers and salvaging equipment were used during the mid-1990s. After equally splitting the recovered coins with the Ecuadorian government in 1998, officially around 2,500 coins would appear at auction in 1999. These were almost exclusively Potosí 8 and 4 Reales that were in excellent condition, including countermarked issues (1649-1652), transitional issues of 1652, and post-transitional pillars-and-waves cobs (1653-1654). https://coins.ha.com/itm/bolivia/bolivia-philip-iv-capitana-cob-8-reales-1652-p-e-vf-details-saltwater-damage-ngc-/a/61364-21094.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61364-03172024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
