^Lot 412 CHILE, Santiago, gold bust 8 escudos, Ferdinand VI, 1751 J.

CHILE, Santiago, gold bust 8 escudos, Ferdinand VI, 1751 J. Cal-824; KM-3; Fr-3. 27.02 grams. Fully detailed strike with brightly lustrous fields, UNC with lots of encrustation in crevices (with NGC tag: NOT ENCAPSULATED / RESIDUE), incomplete rims due to inexact centering and with natural depression in edge below date. Pedigreed to the original Sotheby's (New York) "Uruguayan Treasure of the River Plate" auction of March 1993, with original lot-tag 73. Recovered from: Luz, sunk in 1752 off Montevideo, Uruguay