Issues of the Guadalupe y Calvo mint (gold)

As with silver coins, gold coins from 1845 onwards are also die-cut with locally made dies.

Half escudo  

KM 378.3 ½E 1846 GC MP (Stack’s Bowers auction,30 October 2023, lot 70317)

Diameter 15 mm. 1.690 g. 0.8750 gold 

For a commentary on the half escudo, see here.

KM 378.3 ½E 1848/7 GC MP (Stack’s Bowers auction,11 January 2010, lot 1357)

"E" missing lower crossbar. The second 8 is punched in low and very deep into the die.

KM-378.3 ½E 1851 GC MP (Briggs & Bustos auction XII, April 2025, lot 304)

Last year of series, stamps of design analogous to the contemporary one of the mint of Culiacán, popularly, known as "Aguila de Sonora".

One escudo 

Diameter 18 mm. 3.380 g. 0.8750 gold 

Two escudos  

KM 379.3 1E 1848 GC MP (Stack’s Bowers Baltimore auction, 6 November 2013, lot 21118)

Diameter 18 mm. 6.770 g. 0.8750 gold 

Four escudos 

Diameter 30 mm. 13.50 g. 0.8750 gold 

Eight escudos 

KM-386.6 8E 1846 round tail (Stack’s Bowers auction, 17 August 2024, lot 44438) 

Diameter 37 mm.27.070 g. 0.8750 gold 

KM-383.6 8E 1848 GC MP (Briggs & Bustos auction XII, April 2025, lot 333)

KM 383.6 8E 1851 GC MP (Stack’s Bowers ANA auction, 20 August 2021, lot 41176)