Question On "Cerro Rico Hoard" Of Spanish Cobs

Sounds sketchy to me, Hokiefan. Have you seen pics of the slabs?

They don't have them listed on their web site. And yow, they are not cheap.

The fellow mentioned they had a few dozen AU examples for $1195 with a discount for multiples. I know nothing about these so have no clue about pricing. Again, not something I'm really interested in, but I find any "hoard" discovery interesting if it's not simply a marketing ploy.

Ooooh, this is mildly interesting, though... one of the sites selling these included this (maybe?) NGC-generated summary of coins they have slabbed from this hoard.

If this is correct, it would seem that this is the same source for all the kinda scuzzy conserved UNC 1754 and 1755 Lima pillar 8 Reales that have surfaced in the last year or two (plus some Mexico mint pieces - though this is I'm guessing a different source from the huge group of 1754 and preceding Mex. pieces that surfaced a number of years before these - at least a decade ago now, I believe?).

If that's the case, this hoard really could have come from anywhere in the greater Viceroyalty of Peru or even beyond. I guess they decided to only use the "Cerro Rico" branding on the most obviously associated pieces - Potosi cobs - rather than the Lima pillars.

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Will hand these guys this - they admit that they were conserved... "Otherwise... they'd be dark... and toned"