There are collectors willing to pay large sums of money in order to obtain important pieces within their collections. It is known that there are Colombian coins valued at up to 100 and 200 million pesos, however, there is one that cost more than double, about 500 million.
The eight escudos coin dating from the year 1755 –and which was rediscovered at the beginning of this century – contains the effigy of Ferdinand VI, who at that time was King of Spain.
As explained EFEBefore that time, the coins in our country, which used to be a Spanish colony, had a rounded but irregular shape and it is this coin that begins to take on the perfect round shape, which means that it was one of the first to be minted with a flying press by the Spanish crown in the first factory located in Santa Feterritory that today is Bogota.
(Also: The $8 coin worth one hundred and eighty million pesos: the most expensive in the country).
This was one of the first to be minted with a flying press by the Spanish crown in Santa Fe.
Numismatic blog Ruiz Calleja
“It was thought that the first one that inaugurated the modern stage in the manufacture of coins in South America was from 1756.”, explained an expert to said agency at that time.
At the beginning of this 2023, in March, a coin of this denomination was auctioned in Barcelona for the sum of 100.00 euros, which is little more than 500 million pesos and, despite not being very large, if it has a great price in the market.
It is a coin made of gold, dating from the modern age and which was auctioned by the Áureo & Calicó house in its classic ‘Selection Auction’, where you can find lots of very high quality, as explained by the numismatic blog Ruiz Calleja.
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