Frosty medium yellow gold with attractive if subtle toning around devices and legends. Good luster is still visible around the obverse and across the reverse. A thin lamination fissure extends from P of the mintmark into the center of the shield. Only minor marks are seen, but for a tiny and carefully scratched 32 in the upper left obverse field, probably left by someone who inscribed inventory numbers on their coins in ink, but the scratches were left behind once the ink was no more. Still sharp and pleasing, well centered and fully struck, a fine example of this rare final Popayán 4 Escudos struck in the name of the (then deceased) Ferdinand VI. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.<p>From Christies Geneva sale of the Kurt Homme Collection, November 25-26, 1981, lot 692.
