3.18 grams. Plated in Restrepo as the sole known example of this unusual variety. Restrepo notes that this piece is either "struck with two reales dies" or "it could also be two reales cut down." The coin does not appear to have been clipped, but the II denomination is plain as day to the right of the shield, suggesting the first option is most likely. The cross side appears to be a typical Real die. Very interesting and undoubtedly rare. 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 #4h, illustrated on plate XXX and in a line drawing on p. 521.
