Ferdinand VI portrait. Rich and lustrous light yellow gold with pale green highlights and excellent aesthetic appeal. Remarkably bright, independent of the light hairlines visible on either side. A rim nick is noted over O of CAROLS, two parallel scratches cross the left obverse field from S of CAROLS to the portrait, and some other shallow scuffs are noted, such as the one above and below 6 of the date and around A of NOMINA on the reverse. As noted in the Ortiz catalog, "despite its very minor liabilities, this example is apparently exceptional for a medio doubloon of this mint prior to 1772." From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.<p>From Swiss Bank Corp (Basel)s Auktion 27 of the Emilio Ortiz Collection, September 1991, lot 255.
