6.71 grams. Lustrous silver gray with attractive blue-green and golden toning over both sides. The centers are well defined, with a clear R assayer and completely bold 1652 date. The mintmark is perfect and prominent. While little is legible at the obverse peripheries, the reverse periphery incorporates HILIPP at the right and a complete shield shifted to the left. Choice in terms of surface and eye appeal, this is a very high grade survivor of this interesting 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 #9, illustrated on plate XXXI and in a line drawing on p. 526.
