3.04 grams. Dusky medium gray with attractive multicolored toning highlights from a half century of envelope storage. Well centered on a tight planchet, with a complete and fairly well defined shield. Most of the R and all of the N of the mintmark are on the planchet, as is all of the I and half of the H of the assayer. The cross side is perfectly misaligned to show a somewhat muddy but complete four-digit date: 1625, directly above the cross. The date likely will not photograph well, but it is plain when examined in hand. A very important specimen for specialists. 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 #4m, illustrated on plate XXX and in a line drawing on p. 522.
