3.24 grams. Choice light silver gray with an ovoid planchet. An interesting type, with a pomegranate between the tops of the pillars, nice and well defined here. The visible 2 at the top left is enough to confirm the date positively. The reverse is very sharp, with a good shield at center and denomination visible to the right. The kings ordinal IIII is seen at the periphery. Plated in Restrepo to display this pomegranate and pillars 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 #10l, illustrated on plate XXXI and in a line drawing on p. 529.
