Olivia Peguero’s “Costa Esmeralda Collection,” a series of oil paintings showcasing the landscapes surrounding the town of Miches and the surrounding rainforest, will go on a world tour to benefit the Peguero Arte Libros Foundation. The paintings will be displayed in Florida, London, Dubai, and Bangalore, India. The display will kick-off in Boca Raton, Florida,…
Rare World, Shipwreck Coins Set Record Sedwick Auction
Treasure Auction 29. This is a new record for the auction firm and an indicator of a robust market for collectible coins and currency.
The top-selling coin in the sale was the single finest
Mexico City-struck cob
8 reales Royal dated 1730 that realized
$102,000 USD on a pre-sale estimate of $35,000 and up. A numismatic rarity, the coin has an overdate 1730/28/5 plus the king’s name and ordinal reworked with
PHILIPPVS V over
LVDOVICS I. It was graded AU 58 by
NGC, which is rare among all Spanish colonial Royals as almost all known examples were holed and some even gilded shortly after minting.
NGC-Certified Vintage Coins From the Americas Featured in Sedwick Auction
Latin America are being offered in
One of the top lots is a
Mexico 1730/28/5MO Royal 8 Reales graded NGC AU 58 and pedigreed as the Lazaro Plate coin (lot 287). Spanish coins were a popular currency circulated among American settlements. This is one of the last Royals that was struck before the introduction of the famed
Pillar Dollar in 1732. It has an estimate of $35,000 to $70,000 USD.
The sale also includes a
Colombia 1826 JF 4 Escudos graded NGC MS 64 and pedigreed to the
Lissner Collection and
Esmeralda Collection (lot 805). This high-grade example of the elusive one-year issue also has an estimate of $35,000 to $70,000.
After several months of working with consignors to bring you the best fresh material at realistic levels, we are proud and privileged to present to you our 29th auction. Some would say it is our best ever! Here are some highlights to watch for:
1715 Fleet Gems as always, we offer a choice (MS 63)
Cuzco 2 escudos (lot 36) as well as a very rarely seen
Cuzco 1 escudo (lot 37), both dated 1698 for the one year they were made.
In Shipwreck Ingots you will find THREE gold bars from the
Atocha (lots 51-53), in addition to silver ingots from the “
Tumbaga wreck” (ca. 1528),
Maravillas (1656), plus a very rare large ingot (lot 61) from the
A Sneak Peek at Daniel Frank Sedwick’s May 7-8 Treasure Auction 29
We’ve received a lot of interest in our upcoming May 7-8
Treasure Auction 29 – and rightfully so. The numismatic market is still very hot and this has inspired several top Latin American collections to come to the auction block. So, we’re offering here a sneak peek of what’s coming up in our next sale!
The Esmeralda Collection of Gran Colombian Coinage
The
Esmeralda Collection features some of the finest examples of coinage, both gold and silver, to be struck by
Gran Colombia from 1819 to 1830. In this period, wholly original and uniquely Latin American