The Caballero de las Yndias Coin Collection sold by AUREO & CALICO but “Highlight Coin” Disappoints
2,200 high grade samples of mostly scarce, rare or unique specimens from Spain, her colonies and empire ranging from the Visigothic era to the present were sold Oct 21-22 by Aureo & Calico in Barcelona Spain. The Caballero de las Yndias collection is stunning representation of all of the mints that struck coinage for all of the Spanish dynasties throughout all of the rulers and respective types.
The “Caballero de las Yndias” (Knight of the Yndias) collection contains numismatic treasures, the scope and the quality of which have never before brought to the auction block before.
Interestingly, the collection is being sold by an American who inherited it from a Basque ancestor who had emigrated to the US.
Aureo & Calicó’s coin specialist, Eduard Domingo, told the media that “the coins, all of them solid gold, were minted between the first century (Roman) and the 20th century (during the reign of Alfonso XIII)”.
The star piece was without doubt Lot: 1863, a gold coin known as a Centén (due to its worth of 100 reales, an antiquated Spanish currency). It weighs in at almost 11 ounces.
The coin was minted in Segovia in 1609 by order of the then monarch Philip III. It is the largest gold coin ever minted in Spain and was the first of its kind in Europe.
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In the summer of 1465, as the Wars of the Roses raged, an unknown person hid his worldly wealth in a secret location in a Northamptonshire field and went into hiding. He never returned to claim his money.
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