 CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLIC (COSTA RICA). 1 Escudo, 1828 CR F. Costa Rica. Radiant sun over five volcanoes, REPUBLICA DEL CENTRO DE AMERICA. Rv. Ceiba tree, LIBRE CRESCA FECUNDO. Fr.2, KM 14. Only the Guatemala and Costa Rica Mints struck Gold for the Central American Republic. The Costa Rica Mint struck the 1 Escudo denomination with eight different dates, of which 1828 was the first and rarest. KM offers no mintage figure, stating only ''rare.'' Exactly three examples were known until the present example surfaced in the Eliasberg Collection. The total population of this date is now four! This coin displays fascinating pale gray-gold with deeper red-gold surrounding the reliefs, faint traces of a mounting can be searched out at 12:00. No other specimen may come under the auctioneer's hammer for decades. Overall quality of Very Fine. NCS VF Details. (Est. $4,000-$5,000)
Ex Louis E. Eliasberg Collection (American Numismatic Rarities, April 2005, lot 1661); previously ex Col. James W. Flanagan Collection (Stacks, March 1944, lot 382).
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