3.06 grams. With a full four digit 1628 date and clear N/R/P mintmark and assayer left of the shield, both sides of this coin are blessed with fortuitous centering. The shield is worn but complete. Choice surface quality and attractive toning over dusky gray surfaces. 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 #4d, illustrated on plate XXIX and in a line drawing on p. 520.
