Grading the 1800 CROLUS Chilean Error: Authentication and Valuation

The Discovery of a Lifetime

Condition is everything. Here is how to look at the high points and fields to determine the true grade of this piece. The 1800 CROLUS Chilean error represents one of the most dramatic mint mistakes in colonial coinage history. When Miguel Lehmann discovered this piece at the 2014 COINEX fair in London, he recognized immediately that he had something extraordinary – an 8 Reales coin from the Santiago mint where “Carolus” was misspelled as “CROLUS” in the

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