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                     Mexican 8 Escudos from the 1715 Fleet

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M16.  Mexico, 8 escudos, ornate cross variety dated 1711. [sold]

         One of three known dated specimens of the ornate cross 1711. 

         The ornate cross is by far the rarest type of Mexican 8 escudos.

          Huge 37 mm planchet, near mint, with Real 8 Fleet certificate.

Sold. A full description and more photos are here.

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M21. Mexico, 8 escudos, 1713 J, struck from a Royal die on a huge, round planchet (36 mm).  Among the finest known Fleet 1713 onzas. Available, more information and photos are here. [SOLD]

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M3. Mexico, MXo J, 8 escudos, (1711)   [SOLD]

 In 1711, assayer Jose (J) Eustaquio de Leon presided over a (less than) one-year experimental redesign of Mexican gold coinage. The most dramatic feature of this redesign is the cross side tressure which uses scallop-shaped bridges at the base of the four fleurs. This is the Calico Plate coin, pictured in both LA ONZA(2004) and THE ONZA MAIN BOOK (1986) to illustrate this rare variety (Calico # 387, "few examples  exist"). It is a Real 8 coin and pedigrees to the legendary Schulman "Spanish Galleon Treasure" sale (Nov.1972).

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For reasons that remain a mystery, in 1711 the die engravers at Mexico City were allowed to abandon the box-cross design that they had been using since Carlos II's reign and introduce a unprecedented, ornate style of reverse. The style features curved frond or scallop-like devises that connect the crossbars of the cross potent. Ornate fleurs de lis intrude from them into the angles of the cross. No Mexican coinage or Spanish coinage anticipates this unique and short-lived style. In 1712 it was abandoned in favor of the cross fleury design.

Poor quality control and other technical problems at the mint conspired against the survival of the ornate cross design. Calico chose this coin to illustrate the ornate reverse of 1711 because most other surviving specimens show half of the cross or even less (as well as extensive doubling). The quality of gold cobs reached their lowest point at the Mexico mint in 1711-12.

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M23.  From the 1715 Fleet,   [SOLD]

          Mexico, 8 escudos, 1714 Mo J,  mint state and boldly

          struck on a large planchet (27.03 gms, 33.5 mm)

                More information and photos here. SOLD.

             terravitan@aol.com or call 480-595-1293

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