0.74 grams. An exceptional specimen, ideally struck and centered and showing a partial second strike on the right side of the obverse. The style of lion on this coin, with a ball at the end of his tail, matches the punch used on 8 Reales of 1652, thus this piece likely dates from that year or near it. Undercollected and underappreciated, but very scarce. 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 #5, illustrated on plate XXX and in a line drawing on p. 523.
