An unusually high grade for any date in this series. Abundant frosty luster is present on light yellow surfaces that, though free of marks, were struck with dies of the most abysmal quality. The obverse is heavily rusted, with raised artifacts on devices, fields, and the comically repunched legends. The reverse texture is even more microscopically granular, a reflection of the die texture and not any post-striking flaw. Beautifully preserved, inarguably one of the finest survivors of this issue. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.<p>From Spinks, August 1972.
