Mexico City, Mexico, gold cob 4 escudos, Philip V, assayer not visible (style of 1702-10), very rare, NGC MS 62 (1715 Fleet Label), finest known in NGC census. KM-55.1. 13.63 grams. Lustrous and clearly high grade where details are showing (nearly full shield and cross, both slightly off-center, also full denomination IIII), but with much peripheral flatness and hammered-in points on edge (as made), very rare type with "box-end cross," for which the only dates currently known to exist are 1705 under assayer L and 1706 and 1707 under assayer J (the last-mentioned represented by a single AU 58 at NGC). From the 1715 Fleet, pedigreed to the J.P. Silberman Estate (stated on the label).
