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Some purchases from the Sedwick sale. This coin was produced under Alonso de Villaseca, the third assayer of the late series. Recovered from the "Golden Fleece" shipwreck sunk circa 1550 with all Mexican coins predating Rodrigo Gómez de Santillán (Assayer S), who began his appointment in 1553. Reference article: https://www.sedwickcoins.com/articl...osyjuana.pdf1544 Mexico City, Mexico, 4 reales, Charles-Joanna, "Late Series," assayer A to right, mintmark M to left (M-A), NGC XF 40. Nesmith-58 type; Cal-131; S-M6; KM-18. 13.50 grams. Nicely broad flan with virtually full legends, super-crisp full pillars-and-waves, the shield side also full and with bold M-A but with trace of surface oxidation, dark gunmetal toning.With Sedwick photo-certificate. Recovered from: "Golden Fleece wreck," sunk ca. 1550 in the Northern Caribbean.   IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
Posted 11/04/2023 1:31 pm
