3.17 grams. Struck on a very tight egg-shaped planchet, but nearly perfectly centered thereupon, showing a full four-digit date tucked into the narrow space. The main obverse and reverse devices are bold, and the denomination is visible right of the shield. A lovely little coin. 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 #10h, illustrated on plate XXXI and in a line drawing on p. 529.