13.07 grams. Frosty light silver gray with superb sharpness and only minor granularity. Some striking softness is seen at the absolute center of each side, but the date, assayer, and mintmark are definitively bold, as is the denomination to the left of the shield on the reverse. A bit of harmless dark toning is noted at the upper right of the shield. Struck on a broad planchet that allows a fair bit of the peripheral legend to be visible, this is among the nicest examples of the type in this collection or anywhere else. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.<p>From a hoard discovered by Clyde Hubbard in Medellín in the 1950s and subsequently published by Robert I. Nesmith. Plated in Nesmiths "A Hoard of the First Silver Coins of Nuevo Reino de Granada (Colombia)," 1958, coin #8b, illustrated on plate XXXI and in a line drawing on p. 526.
