Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2018 NYINC Auction 11-13 Jan 2018
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COLOMBIA. (1651-65) Real. Santa Fe de Nuevo Reino (Bogotá) mint. Philip IV (1621-1665). Restrepo M24.15. EF-45 (PCGS).
3.32 grams. Highly lustrous, with very little actual wear and a higher technical grade than suggested by PCGS. Some softness of strike is seen above central obverse and in the lower right quadrant of the shield on the reverse. The denomination and assayer mark are bold. Lovely toning and exceptional eye appeal on both sides.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
3.32 grams. Highly lustrous, with very little actual wear and a higher technical grade than suggested by PCGS. Some softness of strike is seen above central obverse and in the lower right quadrant of the shield on the reverse. The denomination and assayer mark are bold. Lovely toning and exceptional eye appeal on both sides.
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 #10g, illustrated on plate XXXI and in a line drawing on p. 528.
Estimate: $350.00- $700.00