Even yellow gold with pebbly surfaces consistent with jewelry use. Still quite sharp and very rare, missing from Eliasberg, Sedwick, Geiger, and represented in Norweb by an example with an attempted puncture that still brought $990 20 years ago. Sedwick believed this was the rarest date in the series. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.<p>From Sothebys sale of December 1994, lot 43.