NGC Richard Stuart Collection Image Gallery
Posted on 7/11/2017
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) has posted an online image gallery of the NGC-certified selections from the Richard Stuart Collection, the greatest collection of Central American coins ever assembled. View the gallery at NGCcoin.com/gallery/stuart.
The NGC Richard Stuart Collection Image Gallery features over 1,500 coins and medals spanning nearly 300 years from the Central American nations of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama, as well as the former countries of British Honduras and the Central American Republic. The United States is also represented by the inclusion of two dozen so-called dollars struck to honor the Panama Canal, which opened in 1914.
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| Honduras 1908/897 Gold 20 Pesos - NGC MS 61 Click images to enlarge. |
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| Guatemala 1854NG AE Silvered Copper Columbus Pattern 8 Reales - NGC XF 40 Click images to enlarge. |
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The collection was assembled by Richard Stuart, a California physicist who started collecting Latin American coins in the late 1940s. In the 1980s, Stuart narrowed his focus to Central America and gradually built the greatest collection of these coins ever assembled. Stuart passed away in June 2016.
The collection’s highlights include an extremely rare Guatemala 1733G J 8 Escudos graded NGC MS 62. This is the first example of this issue that NGC has certified. Another significant piece in the collection is the Honduras 1908/897 Gold 20 Pesos graded MS 61. No other examples of this seldom-seen overdate have been certified by NGC.
Specialists will also be interested to see the Guatemala 1854NG AE Silvered-Copper Columbus Pattern 8 Reales graded NGC XF 40. It is one of a handful of patterns created prior to the striking of the very rare 1854 8 Reales, the only 8 reales ever issued by Guatemala.
Browse images of these highlights and other pieces from the unparalleled collection of Central American coins and medals assembled by Richard Stuart at NGCcoin.com/gallery/stuart/.
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