3.22 grams. Pleasing medium gray with bright undertones of blue and other colors. The shield and mintmark are complete on the obverse, good three digit 627 date on the reverse. Smooth and choice in appearance. 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 #4a, illustrated on plate XXIX and in a line drawing on p. 519.
