Light yellow gold with good sharpness, a bold strike, and ideal centering. Hairlines are present on both sides, and some nicks and scrapes are scattered through the right reverse field. A series of planchet laminations are mostly obscured at IND at the right obverse, and a smaller patch of similar texture is seen at the final D in FERDND. This is a very rare issue, not acquired by this collector in the first 30 years that this collection was formed and missing from the advanced holdings of John H. Clapp that ended up in the Eliasberg Collection. Restrepo terms this date very rare. There were no Colombian Ferdinand VI 4 Escudos offered in the 2013 Huntington Collection sale, and this date was missing from Caballero de las Yndias, Isabel Trastamara, and Norweb. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.<p>From Don Canaparo, May 1998.
