Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2018 NYINC Auction 11-13 Jan 2018
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COLOMBIA. (1627)-P Real. Santa Fe de Nuevo Reino (Bogotá) mint. Philip IV (1621-1665). Restrepo M20.3. VF-20 (PCGS).
3.20 grams. Beautiful multicolor toning is present over both sides. The shield and cross are both nearly complete. Just the bases of 16 are seen on the cross side, but the P assayer, denomination, and N of the mintmark are all clear on the shield side, along with most of the king's name. A very handsome piece.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
3.20 grams. Beautiful multicolor toning is present over both sides. The shield and cross are both nearly complete. Just the bases of 16 are seen on the cross side, but the P assayer, denomination, and N of the mintmark are all clear on the shield side, along with most of the king's name. A very handsome piece.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
From a hoard discovered by Clyde Hubbard in Medellín in the 1950s and subsequently published by Robert I. Nesmith. Plated in Nesmith's "A Hoard of the First Silver Coins of Nuevo Reino de Granada (Colombia)," 1958, coin #4e, illustrated on plate XXIX and in a line drawing on p. 520.
Estimate: $200.00- $400.00