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A good guess...but I am the llama shepherd😂

Augur is more into minty pigs 🐷😂🐷

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I wonder which lucky Llama herder might be in possession of the other proof like designation. 

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Just picked up 7 more Una Libras (see Today I Received), but this one deserves a special mention.

It’s hard to notice on the photograph, but this coin is quite a different colour to the rest. It seems to have a dull greenish tint to it, when compared to the rest, maybe from copper???
 
Also happy to have got the first year of issue 1898..not in great condition but just had to have it😃!

 

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My two children are reunited..1967 Una Libra No2 just back from grading:- (see above for No 1)


The grade was a real surprise...
At time of going to press...412 Una Libras have been graded by NGC, and only one previously has been graded as Proof Like! Hence the happiness with the grade...

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My two children are reunited..1967 Una Libra No2 just back from grading:- (see above for No 1)


The grade was a real surprise...
At time of going to press...412 Una Libras have been graded by NGC, and only one previously has been graded as Proof Like! Hence the happiness with the grade...

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Hi Dicker...I don’t think there are any restrikes for this coin, none that I have discovered anyway. The history of these coins is a little sketchy in places, as not even the Peruvian Mint know the exact mintage figures for some of the years they were made.

What I really like about them, is that they are the same size as a sovereign, but you can collect them more or less without any competition!(at the moment)..
I recently acquired a rare date, a 1961 with a mintage of only 402...it is now with Numi for grading..it cost less than £600. Can you imagine how much such a rare sovereign would cost?...way out of my price range that’s for sure.
Glad you like the thread...I have sent another seven Una Libras off for grading, and one of them is something really rare🤔...
I am also looking at another coin to collect from South America..5 Quetzales from Guatemala...but maybe not just yet.

 

If I could afford to buy these I would, they would make a great coin to collect. A fair few to go after chaps!

More Una Libras acquired today, two are worthy of additional comment🤔!
The 1915 below has no assayer mark (which would usually lye to the right hand side of the date).When graded by NGC, this will be the first and only one in the registry.
The only 1915 graded by NGC has the assayer mark PVG.

According to Numista, other assayer marks for 1915 exist :- PMGG and PVH but none have ever been graded..these coins are so rare, which make the hunt for them even more enjoyable😀. (Mintage for this year is unknown)

 
The 1907 below also has an unknown mintage, but as four have been graded by NGC, may well be a higher mintage than the 1915 above.

If at first you don’t succeed ...it would appear the ‘7’ in the date has been struck twice as has the ‘G’ in the assayer legend.

Just the wife 😂! But she ain’t MS!

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A real rarity just back from grading, and a far better result than I could have hoped for.

So...why so rare?
Although this coin has a mintage of 2002, something happened in 1968 that resulted in most of these coins being melted for scrap 😱. The price of gold rocketed by over 22% in a short period of time, meaning the scrap value would have been too attractive to resist...So into the melting pot they went!

So far, this is the only 1967 to be graded by any grading company, and I am only aware of one other known example, and that is held in very tight hands.
 

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Just back from NGC the 1915 from above...and as predicted it is one of one.



 

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