Dies by Barre. Plain edge. Bright and lustrous medium yellow gold, struck from highly refined dies on a nicely prepared planchet. Some toning and very minor evidence of handling can be seen in the obverse fields, and a thin pinscratch is hidden left of the shield on the reverse. It is unclear if this is the piece plated in Wayte Raymonds <em>The Gold Coins of North and South America</em>. The plate in that reference is taken from an earlier catalog, meaning a century-old provenance remains to be found. This is the Restrepo plate coin and the only example we record of this rarity. None was in Norweb nor in any other collection with which we are familiar. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.<p>From Stacks sale of March 1988, lot 1595.
