^Lot 524 MEXICO, Mexico City, 4 reales, Charles-Joanna, "Early Series," assayer P to right, mintmark M to lef

MEXICO, Mexico City, 4 reales, Charles-Joanna, "Early Series," assayer P to right, mintmark M to left (oMo-oPo, dotted annulets), motto as PLVS in left-leaning panel with two dotted annulets in each side, NGC AU 53 / Golden Fleece (Shipwreck Brown Label), ex-Sedwick-Downing (stated on label). Nesmith-26 for type; S-M4; Cal-123; KM-17. 13.48 grams. Broad flan with choice full legends and inner details, deeply toned over muted luster, the assayer slightly weak. Note this is the HISPANIE variety with HISPANIARET error and REG/XE at end of pillars-side legend, undoubtedly a transition from HISPANIE to HISPANIARVM, also with unusual pillars-side stops consisting of cross potents surrounded by four annulets. From the "Golden Fleece" wreck (ca. 1550) and pedigreed to the Sedwick-Downing Collection of Mexican Charles-Joanna Coinage.
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