Lustrous light yellow gold with deeper orange toning among the peripheral legends. Fairly well centered, denticles just a bit longer at the lower right obverse than the upper left, good strike on both sides. No major marks are seen. This final use of the Ferdinand VI bust on a Santa Fe 8 Escudos is very rare, listed as "only a few examples known" in the Calicó Onza book and missing from most major collections. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.<p>From Don Canaparo, June 1981.
