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[[Image:Spain Sed26-61.jpg|550px|thumb|Sedwick Treasure auction 26, lot 61]]

This specimen was lot 61 in Sedwick Treasure Auction 26 (Winter Park, FL, November 2019), where it sold for $1,814.75. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Seville, [[Spain]], cob 2 escudos, 1593 date right, assayer B below mintmark S and denomination II to left. Full and clear date (vertical) and S-II-B flanking full shield, the cross also full but slightly doubled, XF with contrasting toning and sediment." This type was struck at Seville with assayer B, 1591-97.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 6.77 g, .917 fine gold, this specimen 6.60 g.

''Catalog reference:'' CT-76, [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-4126]]. 

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Krause, Chester L., and Colin R. Bruce II, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins: Spain, Portugal and the New World,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002.
* Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, ''Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, vol. 1,'' Madrid: Cayón-Jano  S.L., 2005.
* Calicó, Xavier, ''Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001,'' Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
* Menzel, Sewall, ''Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins,'' New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
* Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, ''Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed.,'' Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Sedwick, Daniel Frank, Augi Garcia and Cori Sedwick Downing, ''Treasure Auction 26'', Winter Park, FL: Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC, 2019.

''Link to:''
* [[Spain 1590-S D 2 escudos|1590-S 2 escudos]]
* [[Spain 1593-T C 2 escudos|1593-T 2 escudos]]
* [[Spain 1593-S B 8 reales|1593-S 8 reales]]
* [[Spain 1593-G M 4 escudos|1593-G 4 escudos]]
* [[Spain 1593-S B 4 escudos|1593-S 4 escudos]]
* [[Spain 1595-S B 2 escudos|1595-S 2 escudos]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1593]]
* return to [[Spanish pre-decimal coinage (maravedis, reales and escudos)]]

[[Category:Selections from Sedwick sale 26]][[Category:Cob coinage of Latin America and Spain]]