6.86 grams. Lustrous and frosty, unbelievable quality for an early Santa Fe cob. The surfaces are beautifully toned in subtle multicolor tones over deep medium gray. The shield is complete and nearly fully defined, with the N of the mintmark plain to the left and the P assayer crisp to the right. The cross is complete and bold, and the 0 of the date (along with the base of the 3) makes positive date identification possible. It is hard to imagine this is not the finest surviving example of this 2 Reales type. 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 #3c, illustrated on plate XXIX and in a line drawing on p. 517.
