3.21 grams. Nicely centered and attractively toned, with bright blue envelope toning in the recesses. The shield, mintmark, denomination, and assayer are complete on the obverse, cross quadrants complete on the reverse. The right obverse edge is a little crude, as made. 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 #4j, illustrated on plate XXX and in a line drawing on p. 522.
