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Henry Christensen: The San Cristobal Collection of Silver Coins

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Henry Christensen: The San Cristobal Collection of Silver Coins
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Henry Christensen. THE SAN CRISTOBAL COLLECTION OF SILVER COINS. May 12, 1962. 1-1565 Lots. 12mo. This auction sale catalog includes numismatic material from Mexico, Latin America, and other foreign countries and includes coins from the 1715 Spanish Fleet wrecks. This sale was the first to offer 1715 Fleet coins. It has a one paragraph description of the 1715 Fleet wrecks and contains four dated 8 reales and two dated 4 reales cobs. The sale also includes a non-shipwreck 1732 Pillar Dollar (claims to be the finest specimen known). Also included are countermarked and siege pieces of Europe; cut and countermarked coins of the West Indies; Spanish milled dollars from Madrid, Seville, Chihuahua, Cuzco, Durango, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Guatemala, Lima, Nuevo Reino, Popayan, Potosí, Santiago and Zacatecas; the earliest coinage of Mexico including the extremely rare three reales and four reales; the finest and most complete set of Mexican pillar dollars including both the rare 1733 MF and MX; and countermarked, specimen and regular issues of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. New York. original silver card covers. Fine. 84 pages. 17 b&w plates. Gengerke 16[103]. Lot weight: 0 lbs 6oz. Subject(s): Mexico, Latin American, World Coinage.