6.68 grams. Another fine example, struck on an even broader planchet than the preceding. The shield is nearly complete, and all present details are sharp. The mintmark is plain to the left, though the N is a bit soft. The date is complete, with all four digits showing definitive boldness. The cross is complete, not fully defined but nice nonetheless. A very wholesome and nearly ideally struck example of this important coinage. 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 #3a, illustrated on plate XXIX and in a line drawing on p. 517.
