Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2018 NYINC Auction 11-13 Jan 2018
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COLOMBIA. (1651-65)-R Real. Santa Fe de Nuevo Reino (Bogotá) mint. Philip IV (1621-1665). Restrepo M24.15. EF-40 (PCGS).
3.39 grams. An extraordinary specimen, nearly perfectly round and showcasing rarely seen details of the peripheries. Sadly, the only soft spot around the obverse perimeter happens to be where the date should be, but all of HISPANARIVM REX is clear. The curve of the last digit of the date suggests that this is likely dated 1653. The reverse also shows a wealth of detail, both at centers and periphery, including clear assayer initial and denomination. Traces of luster and bits of bright blue toning are scattered across choice and frosty light silver gray surfaces.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
3.39 grams. An extraordinary specimen, nearly perfectly round and showcasing rarely seen details of the peripheries. Sadly, the only soft spot around the obverse perimeter happens to be where the date should be, but all of HISPANARIVM REX is clear. The curve of the last digit of the date suggests that this is likely dated 1653. The reverse also shows a wealth of detail, both at centers and periphery, including clear assayer initial and denomination. Traces of luster and bits of bright blue toning are scattered across choice and frosty light silver gray surfaces.
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 #10f, illustrated on plate XXXI and in a line drawing on p. 528.
Estimate: $300.00- $600.00