3.25 grams. Lustrous and extremely attractive, with multicolored envelope toning highlights in the frosty recesses. Well struck, showing complete detail at central obverse and a full four-digit date above the left pillar. The central reverse shows some softness on the shield, but the denomination to the left and the R assayer to the right are both crisp, as is PHILLIP at the periphery. A beautiful piece, plated in Restrepo and standing as one of the finest known of the type. 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 #10a, illustrated on plate XXXI and in a line drawing on p. 527.
