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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 12751639, member: 42034&quot;]Stack&#039;s: Anaheim, CA, 10 Aug 2016, lot# 20574</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the advantage of having a coins website, which I programmed myself in HTML btw.&nbsp; I can look up the auction details and photos of stuff I have.&nbsp; Stuff I missed&nbsp; I now keep as references but on a local hard drive.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I bid on one of these (Chile 8E, 1840&#039;s) years ago from Sedwick&#039;s {specialists in Latin American coins}. It was raw as at the time foreign was unslabbed.&nbsp; I should&#039;ve bought it but didn&#039;t as it was cheap{er} possibly back then.&nbsp; Might&#039;ve been the same coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just for reference here&#039;s the type between my last 8 Escudos and yours.&nbsp; It&#039;s the famous Hand on Book type. I got this at Eliasberg as a floor bidder.&nbsp; I actually got in a fight over it. A coin firm and myself both raised our paddles at $2,000. The auctioneer decided to give it to me and the coin firm was pissed and really complained.&nbsp; But what else could they do?&nbsp; Neither of us would go any higher.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chile, 1838 8 Escudos Hand on Book</p><p>Mano Sobre Constitucion, (Hand Over Constitution) uncirculated (NGC-62)</p><p>It is graded by NGC but NOT slabbed.&nbsp; One had the option of getting a slab or a photo certificate back then.</p><p>Eliasberg Auction, American Numismatic Rarities, New York, 2005</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1528422[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Paramount Collection does not ring any bells.&nbsp; But I&#039;ll keep my ears open.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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