Cartagena, Colombia, gold cob 2 escudos, Philip IV, assayer E below mintmark C to left, dots inside and outside tressure on reverse (1630-1), NGC MS 61, ex-Fisher, ex-Lasser. Restrepo-unl (M52 for type); S-C7; KM-4.6. 6.79 grams. Bold full C-E to left of nearly full shield below nearly full crown, just enough of the denomination to right to see that it is the "normal" version (II sideways, not upright), also part of kings ordinal II in legend, the cross-and-tressure complete and well struck, just no part of the date in the legend (but this variety with dots inside and outside the tressure only known for 1630 and 1631, strangely missing in Restrepo with the CE2 obverse), lustrous all over. Note that the Fisher tag and certificate call it "Lasser plated coin" based on what was probably a "fill-down" typographical error in the Ponterio catalog. Pedigreed to the Joseph R. Lasser Collection (Ponterio auction of January 2006, lot 403), with original Mel Fisher tag and photo-certificate PC6-30970.
